Edwin R Stevens

Edwin R Stevens is a recording artist and writer from Llanfairfechan, Wales, now living in Glasgow, Scotland.

From 2008 to 2023, Edwin made music under the Irma Vep moniker; utilising 4 and 8 track cassette recorders, zooms and laptops to make everything from abstract tape collages, stripped back and tender VU informed songs to Henry Flynt style half improvised guitar ragas.

In 2020, Edwin finished his first book, SEAGULLS (very bon books), A loose novel of fourteen interweaving stories revolving around a fake Pontins Holiday Park on the north Wales coast. Legendary fiction writer, film maker and poet, Dennis Cooper called it “a wild and exquisite little masterpiece”.

In 2021, Emyr Williams (RIP) asked Edwin to make an album under his own name for his label Ankst, resulting in “God On All Fours” in 2023. Partially recorded in Penhesgyn studios on Ynys Mon by John Lawrence and at home in Glasgow, the album saw a slight aesthetic shift with cleaner production and a more ‘traditional’ band based sound. With a new found freedom in writing under his given name, Edwin incorporated elements from his short stories into the song writing process, evolving it into a more narrative and lyrical based music.

“A friend told me I was too old to have my vocals buried in the mix. He told me to grow up, basically…”

Following the release of GOAF, the ‘hangover record’, A PLAGUE OF GIMPS (wrong speed records, 2026) was written and recorded quickly, a minimal and absurd 10 song affair dwelling on grief, hereditary dumb f*ck blues, false memory, nuclear bunkers and blood-letting gimps amongst other things.