‘Tin Cry were the first band we wanted to sign when we started expanding our roster of artists. It’s going to be a big year for the band and for our record company.’ (Ursula Noone, Head of A&R, Unbreakable Records.)

Tin Cry are Antonio Moretti, multi-instrumentalist and singer, and Harley Taylor, who sings, plays bass and occasional guitar. ‘They’re a pretty unique combination,’ says Ursula. ‘The tracks they’ve recorded for us have echoes of bands like Led Zep and Pink Floyd but those influences are stripped back, sliced up, reconstituted and then fed into their own unique sound. Heavy guitars and drums, but a pop sensibility! Actually, it’s their songwriting chops that made us so keen to get them on our label.’

Tin Cry’s debut album – Legends In The Art Of Underachievement – will be released by Unbreakable Records in Summer 2025, and ahead of that their new single – It’s Hard To Get Up (When You’re Bringing Me Down) – is out on 2nd May 2025.

The band formed last year, although Antonio ‘Ant’ Moretti and Harley Taylor had played together before in various club bands. ‘We’d been happy playing other people’s songs,’ says Harley. ‘But we used to try and re-arrange them on stage! For instance, we were in a band that covered Twentieth-Century Boy by T. Rex. After a while we got bored with the way the rest of the group played it so we started adding a massive sonic jam at the end which the audience loved. Last year Ant said to me: “Why not do our own stuff?” We’d both been writing songs separately, but it was only when we sat down together to work stuff up, we knew we were onto something really great.’

Ant agrees: ‘We write in a unique way. Usually Harley will come up with something pretty basic as a song idea and we’ll run through it a couple of times to see if it works. Quite often it doesn’t! But when we hit on something we think is good we like to take it apart, restructure it, add to it, and swap it around until we get to the place where we are happy with the song.’ ‘I call it “The Moretti Stare”,’ says Harley. ‘I’ll play Ant a tune I’ve come up with on my guitar and he'll just stare into space for a minute or two. Finally he’ll say some thing like: “Yeah, that’s OK, but I think this would be better.” Then he picks up his guitar, or goes to the piano, or whatever, and just blows my mind with what he’s come up with. We don’t always write like that, but that’s pretty much the way we roll.’

‘It’s hard to categorise the sound of Tin Cry,’ says Ant. ‘I suppose like all artists we don’t want to say that we’re a bit like this band or a bit like that singer. As Ursula from our record company has said, there are lots of hard rock influences because we both grew up loving that kind of stuff.’ ‘Pistols, Iggy, Clash, Zep, Blondie, Queen, Floyd, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan,’ laughs Harley. ‘Will that do?’

Tin Cry will be dropping more tracks as singles over the next few months ahead of the release of their album Legends In The Art Of Underachievement and already putting tracks together for their next album. ‘We intend to keep the boys at it,’ says Ursula Noone. ‘We know that they’ve got plenty more to offer and we want to make sure that as many people as possible get to here them.’