Consisting of thrashing drums and unforgiving guitars, Telling Secrets release their new single
‘Fall Behind’, a track which will play a massive part in the first calculated step of the band’s
future.
The band was realised back in the pandemic of 2021 by sole architect Vik Kovacs. Their sound
is driven by thunderous guitars, angelic vocals, and sinister, atmospheric synths - ‘Fall Behind’
is no different and further enriches their emo-tinged modern rock sound.
Although the track will be officially released on 27th October 2023, the track was actually written
before Telling Secrets was even a concept. It has gone through various demo stages and
re-recordings before finally being in its final form as we hear it today, with Kovacs calling it one
of his best lyrical works to date.
Somewhat of a nomad musician, Kovacs was born in Budapest, Hungary, before growing up in
the UK, moving between London, Surrey, and Manchester, and later travelling to Los Angeles. It
is this eclectic experience, absorption of different cultures, and perhaps his own “reluctancy
towards identifying with belonging somewhere” that makes Telling Secrets’ music so
multi-faceted. His latest songs tackle a common theme about change and Kovacs’ experiences
with “moving halfway across the world and the frustration with the process. This frustration
summons a darkness within me, and I am releasing it”.
Kovacs’ musical roots are founded in technically challenging guitar solo performances (citing
Led Zeppelin's ‘IV’ as “the first album that I could not put down” as well as ‘Dying Is Your Latest
Fashion’ by Escape the Fate), and has further expanded into songwriting, vocal performance,
and music production over the years.
It’s been a long time coming for Kovacs to finally position Telling Secrets into the state he’s
always imagined. Whilst in Manchester, he attended the Royal Northern College of Music for
a bachelor’s degree in guitar performance with only seven places available per year, but he
struggled to find the band members who could help bring his vision for Telling Secrets to life.
That is until he formed an online friendship with Matt McAndrew (Rain City Drive and
runner-up of The Voice 2014), who helped Kovacs reinvent himself as a vocalist.
Now, Telling Secrets finds itself in a seemingly never-ending stream of success. In 2022,
Kovacs placed in the Semi-Final of both the UK Songwriting Contest and International
Songwriting Contest, and in February 2023, won the Petőfi Rádio single award offered by the
national Hungarian radio station. Vik Kovacs has also featured in Amazon Music’s editorial
‘Best New Bands’ playlist, Music-News, BBC Radio 1 Introducing Rock, Digital Tour Bus,
and HammerWorld (HU) along with many more regional media outlets in both the UK and US.
‘Fall Behind’ will feature on their new full-length LP, due to release in early 2024. The LP will
feature a music video made in collaboration with Industrial Films (Cradle of Filth, Black Veil
Brides, 3TEETH) for their track ‘Full Moon’. The LP will also see vocal engineering from
Rachel Blum (Christina Aguilera, Hozier, SZA) for tracks ‘Bad Dreams’, ‘Lullaby’, and
‘Fragile’. Blum also collaborated with Elliot Polokoff of Cemetery Sun on the song ‘Tired of
Waiting’, with Polokoff working on some other upcoming tracks too.
Telling Secrets are looking to “raise the bar for the modern rock genre” with their debut album,
and to consequently generate interest from indie-record labels for their work to follow.
Combined with their ever-growing online presence, surpassing over half-a-million YouTube
views and over 180,000 collective streams across all platforms, and the enormous magnitude of
‘Fall Behind’, Telling Secrets will definitely be hard to ignore.
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