It’s a scorcher of a single.

With the temperatures rising, days feeling longer and drinks getting cooler, summer is approaching. It’s around this time we turn to the past, sharing stories of past summers round the beer garden table as the sunsets. Sentences start with ‘remember when’… and unravel into a kaleidoscope of orange imbued scenes full of laughter and friendship flood the table a you’re transported back to your favourite summer. a holiday you will never forget, one you try to replicate but always failing, each experience so unique to that day.

Stone Mile’s new single Sunset Kisses explores the semantics of rejoicing in previous events, living them vicariously as you flick through photo’s, admiring who you used to be and how you’ve grown alongside family and friends, wondering where the time’s gone and how you can reflect these faces in the upcoming summer.

Made up of Rae , lead singer and lyricist, Scott on lead guitar, Robbie on Rhythm, Gordon the drummer and Ryan on bass and backing vocals, the five formed in 2021 after meeting online. Since then they have released three songs, Settle Down, Circular Quay and now Sunset Kisses. With fans nationwide and over 2000 streams on Spotify it is clear as to why Stone Mile is becoming a household name in the Manchester Music scene.

Ryan has described the Sunset Kisses as being “ about the nostalgic feeling of that one amazing summer you just can’t recreate. That one holiday that’s messy: Cocktails at 2pm, sunburn, melting ice cream and kisses at sunset”. Envision long days with open skies, close friends by your side as you exercise your right to party, the beat of this track taking you there. Upbeat and poppy this single is bound to get you boogieing this season, you can’t help but sing along to the catchy chorus. Celebrate the joys of days gone by and look forward to making more memories full of ice cream and kisses at sunset.

The powerful opening verse sets the tone for the rest of the single with it’s optimistic delivery, exploring a narrative burning with idyllic images, the summer, and the new possibilities it hosts.

“Strawberry ice–cream and 

drops of Malibu 

Soak in the sunshine and

 Be right next to you

Cat eye sunglasses And

White pretty dresses

I love the summer but it burns me with kisses “

Sunset Kisses

It’s evocative of Sandy’ and Danny’s summer, one where everything changes, everything is perfect in a chaotic concoction of too many drinks, strangers gazes and blazing nights. Hands find each other in the sand and then discover more, lips meet lips, love rises as the sun falls.

Sunset kisses settles on a more joyous tone than other tracks that fall under the ice rock repertoire like riot anthem settle down that demands a decent head bang and a room full of moshers.

The sun burns the burdens away, erasing unsettling emotions that simmer within us, keeping us warm throughout the winter, we sip the sunrise and look at the sky through new lenses, life is good, life is liquid and we swim in it. Childhood is reborn when the rays of light burn through the clouds.

Recently being shortlisted to play YNOT this year looks as though it could be an exciting horizon for the quintet.