Cardiff, South Wales
Kemlo
Written in a bedroom in Pontypridd. Built for the back of the room.
Out now
Kill For You
Alternative rock. Written, produced, mixed and mastered at home in the bedroom studio, then released through Kemlo Music. More coming soon.
Built for the room. Loud when it needs to be, quiet when it counts.
How it is made
Bedroom
studio
Every Kemlo record is written, produced, mixed and mastered at home.
No studio clock, no outside hand on the faders. Some of it is written alone and some of it with Rob Norfolk, who also plays guitar in the live band. It means a song can sit for as long as it needs to before anyone else hears it.
Who
The short
version
Kemlo is an alternative rock and indie pop artist from Cardiff, South Wales, writing and recording everything in a bedroom studio and playing it loud enough to fill a room.
Kemlo is Seth William Kemlo, a songwriter based in Cardiff. He grew up in Pontypridd in the South Wales valleys, a town that takes music seriously. The Welsh national anthem was written there in 1856, Tom Jones grew up a few streets over, and the working men's clubs and the choirs never really stopped. Growing up inside that is less an influence than a baseline. Everyone sings. The question is whether you have anything worth saying.
Stages played
The Globe
Cardiff
350 capacity independent venue in Roath, a music room since 2008.
Wales Millennium Centre
Cardiff Bay
The national arts centre, built from two thousand tonnes of Welsh slate.