INTRODUCING: SISSY GREEN

Northern England artist and producer Sissy Green steps into his debut era with Like You, the luminous opening chapter of forthcoming EP Everything you want to say to your crush. Rooted in electronic production but driven by melody, the track balances clarity with distortion — blending indie-pop sweetness, experimental textures and flashes of spoken word into something both intimate and expansive.

Written at Sheffield’s Dryad Works between late summer and Christmas 2025, Like You captures the rush, doubt and glow of falling in love — not just with a person, but with music itself. After years playing bass in a destructive punk band, Green’s sound has evolved into something softer yet no less powerful, trading heaviness for hazy warmth and emotional precision.

Now working as a full band rather than solo, and with his debut EP set for release in July, Sissy Green is entering a new chapter — one rooted in community, collaboration and the messy, beautiful vulnerability of saying what you really feel.

‘Like You’ opens your debut EP as its first chapter. How did you approach writing a song that sets the emotional and narrative tone for the whole project?

I wanted to tell a story and I'm glad I wrote it the way I did. It wasn’t intentional, but I found myself in the studio, alone, at the back of a dark warehouse. It was the end of last summer, UK underground was getting quite popular and I found myself taking inspo from producers like Wraith9 and Jim Legxacy. Everything you want to say to your crush is about when you fall in love and you’re getting to know someone, and the giddy excitement/crippling anxiety that comes with it. That whole ‘does she/doesn’t she like me too? / ‘Does he/doesn’t he like me too?’ moment and the joy that comes with finding that love. I kept playing these chords over and over, and the lights were low. Once the 808s kicked in everything just fell into place. 

You’ve spoken about being “in love with the way you currently write music.” What changed in your creative process that made this era feel different from your earlier work in punk bands?

The main thing that changed was I was writing alone a lot more. I have always made beats, produced for people and generally written songs in my own time, but a lot of writing happened as a group or with other producers. Writing alone is great because you can explore more of what’s personal to you, but I missed having people to bounce off of, so now when I write music, I bring it to the band and they take this rough cut and turn it into a whole damn gemstone. They really bring it to life, then I go away changing bits and adding things, having had the benefit of throwing it around and really interrogating an idea in a live setting with the guys in the band. They’ve always got great ways to improve and develop ideas. 

The sound of ‘Like You’ blends indie-pop melody, electronic production and spoken-word textures. How did those elements come together in the studio at Dryad Works?

Dryad Works is an amazing place. It’s a set of workshops and music businesses based in a renovated warehouse that formerly belonged to a handrail manufacturing business. It lives and breathes support for grassroots artists. There’s a huge variety of music being made in Dryad: there’s dance music, rap music, metal music, dub reggae etc. So I think the main reason those elements came together was because often all of us contributing to this range of music came together and wrote stuff. So it really comes from this genre-bending collab culture at Dryad Works.

After years of writing solo, you’ve shifted to working with a full band. How has collaboration reshaped your songwriting and the identity of the Sissy Green project?

Everything in life is better when shared with friends and the people you love right? Putting a live band together has been part of my life since I was a kid, so it feels natural collaborating with others. Collaboration has reshaped the way I write, bouncing between a studio and a live setting, being able to test stuff out like that and then bring it back into the writing process is quite a luxury.

The EP captures a hazy summer-to-winter emotional arc. When listeners hear ‘Everything you want to say to your crush’ in full, what journey do you hope they experience from this opening moment of falling in love?

I hope they think of someone they’re in love with. I hope they get caught up daydreaming about their crush and I hope they wanna listen to the EP again because it reminds them of that someone. But also I hope they just feel that special feeling, that optimistic feeling. The EP applies to all seasons, all weathers, there’s love in everything.