The Vernon Spring is the project of composer/producer Sam Beste. The UK baased artist, recently released “Other Tongues (feat. aden),” the latest track off his forthcoming album, Under a Familiar Sun, available May 9th via RVNG Intl in North & South America, OPIA Community throughout the world, and Inpartmaint in Japan. The song follows previous singles “The Breadline (feat. Max Porter)” b/w “Requiem for Reem,” aden, is a Brooklyn-based vocalist, producer, writer, and astrophysics PhD candidate, on vocals and is an ode to family life in the context of an increasingly divided world.

Beste has worked with a host of acclaimed artists including Amy Winehouse, Gabriels, Kendrick Lamar’s producer Sounwave, Beth Orton, Kano, Joy Crookes, Matthew Herbert, and MF DOOM. He has been releasing solo music as The Vernon Spring since 2019, developing a distinctive voice at the intersection of jazz, soul, ambient, and contemporary electronic production. Across 12 tracks, Under a Familiar Sun perfectly showcases the breadth of Beste’s artistic evolution. Emerging from a long period of compositional and collaborative experimentation, the album represents a shift from his familiar and immediate production to a more involved and intricate approach. While working with producer Iko Niche, Beste broadened his sonic landscape, integrating hip-hop influences and sample-driven methods while sustaining his characteristic piano composition. Produced and mixed predominantly in Beste’s studio, the album features contributions from several collaborators, including the Porter on “The Breadline,” which sets the conceptual framework for the entire album – “the gap between ourselves and the unspeakable pain of others in a world increasingly vacant of moral leadership.”

Currently based in Brighton with his partner and three sons, Beste realised Under a Familiar Sun as an intimate exploration of domesticity as well as a wider meditation on responsibility in a time of palpable uncertainty. Described by Beste as “a love letter to my nuclear family,” the album showcases an artist working across new spheres of sonic potential, merging personal devotion and moral consciousness.

The Vernon Spring
Under a Familiar Sun
Tracklist
RVNG Intl.

1. Norton
2. The Breadline (feat. Max Porter)
3. Mustafa (feat. Iko Niche)
4. Other Tongues (feat. aden)
5. Under a Familiar Sun
6. Fume
7. In The Middle
8. Fitz
9. Esrever Ni Rehtaf (feat. aden)
10. Counted Strings (feat. aden)
11. Requiem for Reem
12. Known

The Vernon Spring 2025 Tour Dates

Thu, May 22 – Paris, FR @ L’Archipel
Sun, May 25 – Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
Mon, May 26 – Manchester, UK @ Taproom
Tue, May 27 – Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Philharmonic
Wed, May 28 – London, UK @ Kings Place
Fri, May 30 – Berlin, DE @ Colosseum, Saal 1
Sat, May 31 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine

pre-order Under a Familiar Sun by The Vernon Spring HERE