Bridlington's answer to Simon & Garfunkel, Seafret are set to be a name not to be forgotten. The acoustic duo - Jack Sedman (vocals) and Harry Draper (guitar) - release their debut EP ‘Give Me Something’ on September 21st on Sweet Jane Recordings. The EP includes the lead single and EP title track ‘Give Me Something’ - which you can get a listen to below - already racking up an impressive 76,000 plays on Soundcloud in the last week.
The ‘Give Me Something’ EP features five tracks, ‘Give Me Something’, ‘Explosion’, ‘Play With Guns’, ‘Did We Miss The Morning’ and an acoustic version of ‘Give Me Something’ that bookends the EP.
Opening track ‘Give Me Something’ combines a heart wrenching melody laced with lyrics telling of love, loss, melancholy and ultimately despair. It is primarily acoustically driven with an ethereal backdrop that lingers in the mind, providing a perfect introduction to this new pair of singer/songwriters.
First meeting at an open mic night a few years ago, the two had distinctly different levels of experience. Though a few years younger, Harry Draper was an experienced local musician; Jack Sedman, on the other hand, had quite literally only just discovered his voice.
Despite this, the pair instantly hit it off. “We wrote our own songs straight out of nowhere,” explains Sedman. “I’d never written a song before. I loved music but had never written it. We clicked instantly. That’s how we learned to write: through playing and the chemistry between us.”
The name Seafret as well as being a pun on the guitar fret board, is also a local term for the two boys: it applies to the rolling mists that come in off the North Sea during summer. Now living in London, the sea is what the duo miss the most. “When you live there you take it for granted. I never missed it before. You don’t realise what it does to you when you’re there.”
We suggest they head down to the Thames. Same thing really.
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