Amber Run

The British indie, alt-pop band Amber Run formed in 2012 when childhood friends Tom Spelling (bass), Joe Keogh (guitarist) and Will Jones (guitar), met Felix Archer (drums) and Henry Wyeth (keyboards) while all three attended the University of Nottingham. Thanks to an early break, they played the 2013 Reading Festival, which brought them a record deal. The next year they issued 3 EPs—Noah, Spark, and Pilot. Their dreamy, introspective music was big on emotion, and their first proper LP, 2015’s 5am caught on enough to get the album to number 36 in the UK while the album’s lead track, “I Found” sold well enough to be certified Silver. Felix Archer and Will Jones decamped in 2016, and the band was released from its recording contract. The remaining trio released a string of singles that culminated in the 2017 album For a Moment, I Was Lost. The album topped out at number 49. Two years later Philophobia found the band attempting to bring a more ornate, orchestral element to some songs and alternating them with more raucous numbers. The following year they issued an unplugged EP comprising songs from Philophobia and in 2021 a new mini-album, The Search (Act I), marked the first release in a trilogy of mini-albums with The Start (Act II) and The Hurt (Act III) concluding the trilogy in 2022. In 2023, the band released their fourth full-length album, How to Be Human.