Tommy Lefroy

about the artist
Tommy Lefroy is the soft rock project of songwriter-producers Wynter Bethel and Tessa Mouzourakis. The pair met in Nashville, Tennessee, while they were both writing for other artists. "Meeting Wynter was a sigh of relief," says Tessa, "I didn't know I was looking for someone like that until I found her."
They bonded over music, literature, and heartbreak, naming themselves for Jane Austen's real-life 'Mr Darcy,' Thomas Langlois Lefroy, the 19th century judge and politician who broke the author's heart. Tommy Lefroy's mission? To subvert the broken woman trope, and become the heroic leads themselves. After years bending to linear…
MoreTommy Lefroy is the soft rock project of songwriter-producers Wynter Bethel and Tessa Mouzourakis. The pair met in Nashville, Tennessee, while they were both writing for other artists. "Meeting Wynter was a sigh of relief," says Tessa, "I didn't know I was looking for someone like that until I found her."
They bonded over music, literature, and heartbreak, naming themselves for Jane Austen's real-life 'Mr Darcy,' Thomas Langlois Lefroy, the 19th century judge and politician who broke the author's heart. Tommy Lefroy's mission? To subvert the broken woman trope, and become the heroic leads themselves. After years bending to linear rules, writing together was both revelation and liberation, harnessing the power of female storytelling, buoyed by feminist heroes, from poet Anne Carson to Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith and Phoebe Bridgers. A dreamscape sound sculpted from both finespun acoustics and fuzzy, distorted guitars, it's a sound which also echoes the guitar playing women of the grunge-pop 1990s.
The pair worked remotely, writing and recording between their respective apartments in Los Angeles and London, to complete their highly praised, independently released debut EP, Flight Risk (2021), followed by Rivals (2023), which have collectively amassed over 100 million streams on Spotify alone. The band was nominated for Breakthrough Group of the Year at the 2023 Juno Awards.
Seeing the tangible effect their music has had on fans at live shows has blown Wynter and Tessa away, for a project that started over facetime, at a time when collective effervescence was taken away. The band has been touring since 2021, across the US, Canada, UK & EU, headlining and supporting artists including Sigrid, Samia, and most recently, Niall Horan on his 24-date UK/EU arena tour, playing for crowds upwards of 22,000 each night. Not many acts have played Wembley arena twice pre releasing a full length debut.
Scholarly, funny, profound, and prone to apocalyptic thinking, the pair nod to feeling wrung out by the malaise of modern life and its crumbling systems, as comfortably and sharply as they reference heartbreak, queerness, and their experiences of womanhood, along with deeply human feelings of existentialism, nostalgia, and missing a sense of home. "A lot of people we meet at shows talk to us about breakups or anxiety, struggles with disordered eating or depression." says Wynter of their burgeoning global fanbase. "We hope that by sharing our experiences, we can help others feel seen in their own."
Tommy Lefroy is a perceptive voice for a generation in an ever increasingly precarious position. They listen before they speak. They're also ambitious, proactive and multi-talented; writers, musicians, producers and artists, creating and editing each aspect of the project, from the records, to the live show, styling, artwork and music videos.
Their third EP, born blue is due October 25th, 2024.