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London duo APRE have released their new mixtape A001. Comprised of 9 cuts in total, the release, which sounds more like an album than a mixtape, is a lush mixture of indie and pop, with traces of new wave and more. Recorded as a sort of ray of sunshine during cloudy times for the pair, musically A001 is upbeat and spirited, capturing sounds of the 80s and bridging them with modern sonics. A truly engaging offering, you can stream the mixtape below.

Regarding the mixtape, APRE mentioned:

“Pulled together over just three weeks in early 2021, A001 is us resetting, going back to why we made music in the first place together. Having both gone through breakups and parting ways with our label, the only thing we both wanted to do was write together as basically a form of therapy. We locked ourselves in a room and wrote a very intense, but strangely optimistic body of work. It is so nice to have these songs as almost a diary of some of the lowest points in both our lives, but nice to see that we were at least optimistic to have these songs in our lives now! A001 is APRE at its core.”