Mesadorm make bone-melting, intravenous Cup-a-Soup music: intimacy-first, depth-channelling beats, shining synth-led harmonies, and a bright, idiosyncratic collage of dead-good sound. Not for the faint of constitution. For divers, not paddlers.

The band is a long-standing collaboration between five lifelong friends: Blythe Pepino,Aaron Zahl, Daisy Palmer, Jo Silverston, and David Johnston. Having known each othersince their teens, weathering phases of romance, friendship, loss, growth and multiple musical incarnations, Mesadorm’s connection runs deep, translating into a mesmeric, emotional and transportative live presence with an unusual sense of trust and assuredness.

Mesadorm first emerged with their 2018 debut Heterogaster, a record that took relationshiptruths, epiphanies around family, sexuality, and pain, and blended them with equal parts Björk, Kate Bush, Caribou and experimental pop instinct. The album received widespread critical acclaim and quickly positioned the band as a singular new voice in British alternative music. Its acoustic counterpart, Epicadus (2019), offered a stripped-back, whisper-close retelling, no less powerful, no less devastating.

Their sound resists easy categorisation, existing somewhere between art-rock and dream-pop. Pepino’s lyrics often feel like domestic observations filtered through emotional surrealism, while vocal harmonies reach toward elemental other-worldliness. Moaning guitars, synths and obtuse structures nod to artists such as Radiohead, Dirty Projectors, Arthur Russell and Voka Gentle, while still remaining unmistakably Mesadorm.

Following standalone releases Let’s Leap and Take Me To A Place, developed with acclaimed Bristol-based producer Tim Allen (Bat For Lashes, Adrian Utley), the band released their second full-length album Pollinator in April 2022. The record retained Mesadorm’s signature emotional thickness, but introduced sharper edges: a punk-tinged, defiant streak railing against nationalism and societal drift, while still honouring the fleeting beauty of connection, intimacy, and care. Pollinator marked a turning point, with Pepino stepping further into production and the band embracing freer, more collective methods of creation.

Fast forward to 2026: after four years away, Mesadorm return with Come On, Baby*,* their first new music since Pollinator**** and the opening release from their forthcoming third album, Comfort and Lies, due this June.

Out on 6th March, Come On, Baby carries a sense of forward motion, thoughtful and intimate at its core, lifted by bright harmonies and an easy, unforced momentum, setting the tone for an album that leans into emotional openness. Comfort and Lies is Mesadorm’s most expansive work to date, reflecting on upbringing, belonging and care, while quietly echoing the tension and uncertainty of life in contemporary Britain.

Hollis Robin is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and very chill wizard based in Bristol. Robin's self-released music combines finger picked acoustic guitars, lo-fi drums and samples, psychedelic synth textures, and soaring pop melodies with reflective and curious lyrics exploring the continuity between the insides of our heads and the natural world outside them. Performing solo or backed by pianist Luke Faber and flautist Mel Thompson, Hollis' live shows are warm and welcoming, inviting the audience in to a world of nature spirits, inner children, love, and care.

Standing show at Jam Jar Little Ann St BS2 9EB

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