Louisiana-based band Troy Bennett’s Graveyard Lips champion living with empathy, kindness and love in mind. Troy’s music works toward understanding the human connection, keeping it alive, whilst also understanding what the alternative is. With a balance of wisdom, pensiveness, optimism and the bittersweet, Troy writes songs that surround his ideals, connecting with fans through these feelings
Their latest release is the full-length project ‘(Bare)Ly Existing’, an album full of singer-songwriter tracks that pull on your heartstrings, encouraging you to be introspective and provokes thoughts surrounding the state of the world as we know it. Artistic instrumentation that surrounds Troy’s vocal performance is used to amplify the huge amount of emotion he puts into each tracks. The rise and fall of dynamics and textures are a testament to his songwriting ability, balancing acoustic and electric guitars to bring the mood up and down.
On the new release, he shares, “This record is an expulsion and catharsis of a lifetime of confusion and sadness. It's only going to get weirder from here.”
Consistently growing a following with a sound that is both nostalgic and gorgeously relevant, Troy Bennett’s Graveyard Lips continue to evolve their sound whilst evolving the perspective of their audience.