Family Stereo Releases Debut LP 'The Thread' today via Bella Union | Shares Ambient Piano Ballad, “Remedy”

Family Stereo Debut Album The Thread Released Today via Bella Union The Thread album pre-order Shares Ambient Piano Ballad, “Remedy” Singles: “Fault Lines” “Waiting On Nina” “DLR” “Remedy” NPR “New Music Friday” | “NPR “Into Music” MAGNET Magazine | Northern Transmissions | BrooklynVegan

Photo credit Ben Meyer Family Stereo, the recording alias of singer-songwriter Blake Watt, has released his debut full-length album The Thread today July 31 via Bella Union. An album of folk-tinged and brush-stroked reflections on distance and connection, The Thread is both dynamic and subtly cinematic. This is beautifully represented with final album single “Remedy” also released today. The haunting arrangement is minimalist yet richly expressive, Blake’s spare piano and producer Sam Hodder-Williams’s synth shimmers maintaining a mood of emotional suspension with a featherlight touch and an elegantly unhurried grasp of melody. Blake’s warmly tender vocal, too, gets the measure of the song in its controlled sense of pace and understatement. Listen / Share: “Remedy” Family Stereo is the project of 25-year-old Blake Watt, son of Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. Quickly earning acclaim for early fan favorites such as "Robot Boy" and "My Favourite Band", Blake's formative folk-pop influences span Elliott Smith, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Adrianne Lenker.  Formerly a drummer, Blake began making his way toward these songs of travel and distance when he took up the guitar at 15. He honed his voice live, across slots at UK festivals including Kendal Calling and The Great Escape and eagle-eyed audiences might have spotted him at London’s Moth Club in 2025 performing with a reconvened Everything but the Girl, where a cover of “Removed” held firm amid a carefully curated setlist. The development from those early years is clear, but it’s the kind of evolution that prefers to refine rather than embellish. As Blake says, “I think my writing has been getting more pared-back as I’ve progressed. I find more and more that simple is better. I love telling a story in the simplest way or conveying a feeling in the simplest way, with not too many frills.” The Thread is a collection of lush melodies and moods, a record that moves at its own pace, maps out a space of its own making and invites the listener in. Website | Instagram | X | Facebook Spotify | Bandcamp | Apple Music