Up until the release of their new single, “Measly Means,” today, Villanelle had just one song on Spotify. The rock trio have never played outside of their native England with the exception of quick one-offs in Malta and Germany. They have no official timeline for the first of their first EP, and their debut LP remains little more than a distant dream.

But they’ve already opened up for Jet and Liam Gallagher at enormous venues across the United Kingdom, and their frantic club gigs are packed with young fans who scream along to songs that haven’t even been recorded yet, and are available only via dodgy, fan-shot Youtube videos.

One reason they’ve pulled this off is because Villanelle are proud Nirvana obsessives who essentially reverse engineered the sound of Nevermind and sprinkled

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