THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Bed are a Berlin band founded by Argentine bass player Sol Astolfi and Chilean vocalist Nicolás Astorga in 2021. After initial experimentation and writing sessions, they invited German guitarist Ema Schiller to join.
At its core, Bed’s sound rooted in shoegaze, dream-pop and post-punk. Their lyrics are sad and sexual, weaving together threads of both vulnerability and desire, producing a body of work that challenges normative creative expression. This is exemplified in the vocalizations, which are intentionally gender ambiguous, representing a fluid identity throughout the album.
The band wind together iconic elements of the ’90s scene, layered with ambient and influenced by the Berlin rave scene. There is a coming-of-age quality to their compositions, a sense of reaching a certain age in life, losing a second virginity across their musical practice, the regaining of innocence and the caring of the wounds of adulthood. There are also narrative aspects that catch the listener, interludes that whisper a secret which gives depth to the storyline of the record.
Bed reveal something confidential to us; cherished matters that were treasured inside failed love affairs and broken affections, that needed to come out in the shape of melancholic tracks. Everything Hurts is a delicate and yet rough, noisy and still dramatic output that belongs to a sensitive audience, someone looking for deep-felt tunes and autobiographical confessions, paired with post produced vocals and punchy electronic beats, mixed with melodic shoegaze/dream pop elements.”
