Brighter has been played on NTS in shows including In Focus, featured first on 22 February 2019. Songs played include Does Love Last Forever?, Things Will Get Better and Around The World In 80 Days.

Self-described “acoustical power trio" Brighter was founded in Worthing, United Kingdom by singer/guitarist Keris Howard, his keyboardist girlfriend Alison Cousens and bassist Alex Sharkey.

Signing to the now-legendary Sarah Records, the group issued its debut single "Around the World in Eighty Days" in August 1989, followed in February by "Noah's Ark". Absent a flexi-disc release, "Next Summer", Brighter wasn't heard from again until late 1991, when they issued the full-length Laurel;…