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Sweet’s depictions of life contain with it, a sparkling pallet of feminine perspectives and social satire.”

Liz Lund - Waking Dream - NYC

steph sweet - underground, psychedelic, indie-folk, garage outsider musician and singer.

Steph Sweet joined her first professional band as a singer at seventeen, lying about her age to get the gig. The Love Hysterix were a five-piece psychedelic band touring the underground and university UK scene and turning down a recording contract as a bad deal.

Sweet left the band to concentrate on song-writing. There followed a few bands that Sweet fronted as vocalist and guitarist, before finally forming a stoner-rock band Roadkill, selling out their first gig and blowing the electrics. After a brief and bloody hiatus, their last gig was at the European Festival of Punk in Edinburgh. The drummer took LSD and soiled himself onstage, the tour manager drunkenly stole the van and the lead guitarist left her husband and ran off with the bass-player.​

Sweet then moved to Brighton and wrote and published her debut novel with an independent London publisher, who flew her to New York to sell the film rights. She focused on writing a further two novels, before a close friend finally persuaded her back into performing at his pub, the Neptune. As a result, she did a course in Sound Engineering and began the process of building her own recording studio, starting with a Tascam 4-track tape machine and trying to master the dark arts of soundwaves, recording, arranging and mixing music.

Sweet discovered Soundcloud and never looked back. Her first lo-fi tape 4-track song, Synaesthesia, was selected as Soundclouder Of The Day, gaining her thousands of followers but more importantly for her, connecting with working musicians from around the world.

​Since then she has been number one with Ellen, featuring regularly in the Soundcloud charts, and the single, Breathe went into the Soundcloud New&Hot Indie Chart at number two and stayed in the top ten for a fortnight. She signed a deal with US Label Milwaukee Junction/Gold Dragon Records in 2017 and played on BBC radio, interviewed and featured frequently in international music blogs in Canada, New York City and England, such as The Devil Has The Best Tuna, Left Bank Magazine and Overblown.

Steph Sweet is currently writing the new album with the launch pencilled in at the Delancey NYC 2024.

“Thankfully Steph is still ploughing her particular esoteric furrow and has just released her new single Edie which is as good as anything she's released to date. It sounds like a darkly psychedelic theme from a long forgotten left field spaghetti western and it's absorbing and utterly enchanting. If the Velvet Underground had been commissioned to do the title track for the Good, The Bad and the Ugly, this is how it would sound.”

Paul Kerr - The Devil has the Best Tuna

LUND: “In many of your songs there is mention of many serious issues, and perspectives, that sometimes are hidden behind the beauty of your music. Why did you decide to create such a stark contrast in your music, or rather how did you come up with it, because it’s brilliant?”
SWEET: “That is very kind of you to say. I really couldn’t say where it all comes from. To me, it’s all a form of magic. At my best, I feel as if I am a conduit and not a creator at all.”

Waking Dream - NYC

 Steph Sweet lets “A Wicked Man” soars all the way out into the sky, with an expansive take that possesses a wild freedom to it. The blues, dream pop, hard rock, and shoegaze all mesh into a singular experience. A western twang certainly rests right in the center of it giving it a hazy, animalistic passion to it. Done with such dignity, she brings to mind some of the joy that the early 90s brought musically, as there is a raw grit that speaks right to the soul.

Skope Magazine