HONNE

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Honne (stylised as HONNE) are an English duo formed in 2014 in London, consisting of James Hatcher (producer) and Andy Clutterbuck (singer, producer). Honne's debut studio album, Warm on a Cold Night, was released 22 July 2016. Their second album, Love Me/Love Me Not, followed on 28 August 2018.

HONNE’s lyrics have a habit of being eerily prophetic. Back in 2018, they released the single ‘Shrink’, on which they sang: “You'd better book me a shrink for 2020, ‘cause by that time I'm gonna be crazy.” Then, in January of 2020 itself, the London-based duo decamped to Los Angeles to start work on new music. The first song they landed on was called ‘What Would You Do?’, with its refrain asking a question that was – they thought – entirely hypothetical: “Let’s just say the world ended a week from now, what would you do?”

When, in many ways, the world did indeed end just a few short weeks after Andy Clutterbuck and James Hatcher penned the song, the duo paused work on a number of these new songs to create their first ever mixtape. ‘No Song Without You’, released last July and featuring its smash hit title track, saw the band slow down – like all of us had to – and appreciate life. Influenced by acoustic instruments and classic song structure, the mixtape saw the band taking things away from the production-based creation of their first two albums, 2016 debut ‘Warm On A Cold Night’ and 2018 follow-up ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’.