Initially coming together at the end of 2011 when Tom B first met Dan (the former had started dating the latter’s sister, a first incarnation of the band gave way to their current line up in 2017 when Kai and Tom G joined the fold. Having spent their formative years sharing music and developing a mutual love of Pavement, Pixies, Yuck, Dinosaur Jr and the “guitar-heavy, artistic rock music” that had come from the more lyrically-minded end of the ‘90s American indie spectrum, there’s an audible ease to the way the four work together that comes from having devoted - for some of them - almost half their lives to doing it., Bull have also sharpened a knack for the nuances of the genre too: cleverly needling melodies that’ll stay in your mind for days, and pretty harmonies that sweeten every riff.

It’s an attitude that writes itself all over the 13 songs of their debut. Recorded across a long, two-year bout of repeated trips to Amsterdam with producer Remko Shouten at the helm (“He’s Pavement’s sound engineer. We met him in a bar at 3am when he was on tour with Spiral Stairs”), ‘Discover Effortless Living’ doubles down on these ideas, fusing the easy atmosphere of four friends with a near-symbiotic musical relationship and the intricacies of a group unafraid to push their potential to create an album that reveals more of itself with each listen.

Having honed their live chops playing with the likes of Squid, The Orielles and Spiral Stairs (Scott Kannberg of Pavement) they’ve become a music force to be reckoned with.