The members of PREP are expanding their circle. For the group’s sophomore album of slick pop gems, titled The Programme (out June 7th on Bright Antenna), they’ve enlisted a producer to help evolve their sound. With the guiding hand of the Latin Grammy-nominated Renaud Letang, acclaimed for his work with Feist, L'impératrice, and Benny Sings, PREP has concocted its smoothest, warmest sounding album yet. Anchored by the first single TK, The Programme is PREP at its most confident, showing off its sparkling taste through bold features and a bigger, near-anthemic sound: the result of playing bigger and bigger venues around the world.
 

The members of PREP, vocalist-lyricist Tom Havelock, keyboardist Llywelyn ap Myrddin, drummer Guillaume Jambel, and producer-guitarist Dan Radclyffe, began writing The Programme in London in 2023. Though the group initially started with the intention of exploring the world of ‘70s and ‘80s American R&B and soft rock through a contemporary lens, in the ensuing years PREP honed a sound that was unmistakably theirs. The formation of this singular style allowed them to cover Harry Styles’s smash hit As It Was and make it sound like PREP. (Tens of millions of plays and YouTube comments like “this makes Harry's version sound like a cover” can’t be wrong.) 

Though it’s only PREP’s sophomore album, The Programme feels like a capstone to a musical project that began as an experiment and grew into a globetrotting phenomenon with a fully realized aesthetic. The evolution is clear: an epic song like Last Plane Out, with its stadium-sized, Phil Collins-esque sense of scale, would not have made sense on previous PREP releases. This is the moment where PREP ascends to the next level of international acclaim.

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