Meet Tin Cry — a genre-defying duo blending raw rock energy with pop sensibilities. Made up of Antonio Moretti (multi-instrumentalist and vocalist) and Harley Taylor (vocals, bass, and occasional guitar), this new band is turning heads with a sound that’s both familiar and refreshingly unique.
A Sound Like No Other
“They’re a pretty unique combination,” says Ursula Noone, Head of A&R at Unbreakable Records. “The tracks they’ve recorded for us have echoes of bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, but those influences are stripped back, sliced up, reconstituted, regurgitated — and then served up as their own unique sound. Heavy guitars and drums, but a pop sensibility! Actually, it’s their songwriting chops that made us so keen to get them on our label.”
Tin Cry officially formed last year, but Moretti and Taylor’s musical partnership goes way back. The pair played together in several club bands, often putting their own spin on classic rock covers.
“We’d been happy playing other people’s songs,” says Harley, “but we used to try and re-arrange them live on stage! For instance, we were in a band that covered ‘Twentieth Century Boy’ by T. Rex. After a while, we got bored with the way the rest of the group played it, so we started adding a massive sonic jam at the end — which the audience loved.”
The turning point came when Antonio suggested they start writing and performing their own material. “We’d both been writing songs separately,” Harley recalls, “but it was only when we sat down together to work stuff up that we knew we were onto something really great.”
Deep Influences
Despite their desire to defy genre labels, Tin Cry doesn’t shy away from acknowledging their musical heroes.
“It’s hard to categorise the sound of Tin Cry,” says Tony. “I suppose, like all artists, we don’t want to say that we’re a bit like this band or a bit like that singer. But as Ursula from our record company has said, there are lots of hard rock influences because we both grew up loving that kind of stuff.”
Harley is more direct: “Pistols, Iggy, Clash, Zep, Blondie, Queen, Floyd, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan — will that do?”
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