Tender

Since forming in 2015, the duo – James Cullen and Dan Cobb – have become masters of balancing bedroom pop intimacy with festival-sized ambition, with their superbly composed alt-pop songs gaining fans in NPR, Stereogum and beyond as well as hundreds of millions of streams.

Tender’s fourth album, Where the Waves Break, is a story of light and dark. Contained in these 14 songs, the most focused and ambitious the south coast duo have ever written, is the push and pull between our hope for good and unfortunate but inevitable capacity for ugly.

With their personal lives more settled and both members now based on the south coast – Cobb in Brighton and Cullen in Portsmouth – the creation of Where the Waves Break is a story of reconnection with their beginnings, and another renewed testament to their unique and unbreakable musical chemistry.