Don't Try

Don't Try is an independent music company based in London, England. Don't Try is an Independent record label based in Suffolk, England.

Bessie Turner - Big Sleep

Released 07.04.17

11/12/2025

2025 has been some year! In fact, it’s been our biggest and best to date. We’ve had the pleasure of working with 107 artists across 280 campaigns, achieving some truly amazing results: from a top 3 album in Australia, to promoting tours in Japan and The Philippines, alongside plenty of record-breaking campaign results for our amazing clients. Our production roster has been busy too, working with 150+ artists across production, mixing and mastering. From major label bands to emerging acts, their efforts have helped shape some incredible sounding records.

One of our favourite achievements is where this has taken us, having worked with artists across no fewer than 18 countries and spanning 5 continents, from Asia to North America and Australia to The Middle East, alongside lots of amazing acts from our native United Kingdom/Europe.

Thank you to everyone who’s trusted us with their music and we can’t wait to level up again in 2026.

02/12/2025

Amazing to see our client Jordan Lawlor performing with on their North American tour. Alongside being a member/producer of M83, Jordan has produced and mixed for , , .let.rae, and more.

He’s a phenomenal talent - as much as virtuoso musician and visionary songwriter as he is a world class producer and mixer. Don’t Try are proud to represent him.

19/11/2025

Tooth Gore’s prolific approach to releasing music and playing live has seen the project enjoy a rapid rise since launching last year 🚀

We’ve loved working with him and the team across these release campaigns, and are proud to have helped achieve some great results...

📈 1,357% Increase in Instagram Followers

✅ 784% Increase in Spotify Followers

💿 500,000+ Spotify Streams

🏆 Editorial Playlists Unlocked

📊 Algorithmic Playlist Unlocked

📺 2.3 Million Video Views on Instagram

Thousands of new followers have been added across Instagram and Spotify, with a 1,375% and 784% increase respectively. Tooth Gore’s music has been streamed over 500,000 times in this period, with Spotify Editorial Playlists achieved and Algorithmic Playlists Unlocked for the first time, delivering a high volume of output in terms of listeners, streams and saves.

2026 is set to be huge for Tooth Gore, with tour dates in the UK, Europe and Asia already locked in, and more material in the pipeline. He is the definition of a hardworking independent artist - he lives in the studio whilst somehow constantly being on the road at the same time. In the 14 months since launching the project, he’s released his debut album and performed countless live shows across the country.

It’s been a pleasure collaborating with .gore.does.surf.punk, placing the music in front of millions of viewers and listeners world wide, with a serious boost across all Key Spotify and Social Media Metrics.

Excited to keep building this momentum…

05/11/2025

DIGITAL MARKETING FOR THE MODERN AGE OF MUSIC 🚀

Today we’re reflecting on one of our favourite recent campaigns of recent times by one of our best-loved artists of the moment:

Thornhill are a band on top of their game right now, having toured the world and been recognised as Best International Breakthrough Artist by the prestigious Heavy Metal Music Awards. With a new album about to be released and a growing buzz around the band, we had to ensure our marketing strategies captured their current audience as well as placing the artist in front of a new potential fan base that were highly-likely to engage. Within our strategy, we were able to assist in creating an ever-green funnel of social media content, as well as editing existing assets for advertising, with the intention to impact online growth across all key metrics and platforms.

The result was a number 4 album in the band’s native Australia, with sold-out shows worldwide. We were delighted to see the band set new records for Daily Spotify Streams and Listeners, as well as substantial growth achieved in terms of 50,000+ new followers across key platforms where our marketing strategies were implemented.

Key Campaign Highlights:

✅ Ad Impressions = 1.1 Million

✅ 50,000+ New Followers across Spotify and IG

✅ Ad Rech = 500,000+

✅ Cost Per Click Average = £0.05 - £0.08

✅ Instagram Profile Views = 30,000 unique accounts via link clicks

✅ 21 Million+ Spotify Streams for ‘Bodies’

✅ New record set for daily Spotify Streams and Listeners

✅ 801K New Record for Daily Spotify Streams

✅ 1+ Million Views Across Videos on IG

✅ ‘Nerv’ Video Asset is the Most-Engaged with post of all time on the band’s IG

We would love to hear from you if you have an upcoming release that you wanted to discuss. Alternatively, if you feel you have a release that didn’t reach its full potential, we work with artists from all backgrounds and stages in their careers

13/10/2025

Happy 8th birthday to ‘Pinewood Smile’ - the fifth studio album by U.K rock legends - produced and mixed by and engineered by , at the beautiful . Proud to have had two of our clients across the recording of this phenomenal LP (and many others)…check out some of these recently unearthed photographs of the session.

10/09/2025

We were lucky enough to attend reunion headline show at , and it was an amazing thing to hear them open a breathtaking career spanning set with their second ever single ‘Latchmere’. Proud to say that this track was mixed by our very own whose work helped capture the sound of a fearless young band setting out on their journey.

Taken from 2007’s era defining album ‘Colour It In’, it still sounds as raucous and exciting as ever.

05/09/2025

Congratulations to our very own who has amassed an incredible 500K Spotify Streams on his new EP, ‘All I Know’, released just 1-week ago.

Hassan has been on an incredible trajectory with 5 Million Spotify Streams in the last 12 months and 50,000+ new followers across his social media channels.

2025 has been a special one, with HBR only just getting started.

28/08/2025

Thrilled to see our roster collaborating with Julian Lennon across his upcoming EP ‘because…’ • Mixed by and mastered by .

is a phenomenal artists…it’s in his blood to make great work, and this is no exception. Congratulations to the team for putting this together.

Lead track ‘because…’ is out now, with the full EP available for preorder from Julian’s website.

📸 Marilyn Cark

21/08/2025

Digital Marketing Campaigns to Super Charge Your Key Streaming and Social Media Metrics 🚀

Combining Advertising with Playlisting can be extremely lucrative for artists who want to see their music connect and to grow their fan base. We’ve been delighted to work with some incredible artists across an array of releases, delivering outstanding results and accelerating their Key Social Media and Spotify Metrics -

What Our Campaigns Deliver…

🥇 Record Amount of Daily Spotify Streams and Listeners

📈 Accelerating Online Followers/Subscribers

🔥 Igniting Spotify’s Algorithmic Playlists

🏆 Elevating Your Track to ‘Most Popular’ in the Catalogue

💯 Maximising Engagement on Social Media

💵 Dramatically Increasing Online Revenue and Sales

Reach out to us today to find out how we can help you maximise your online reach and build a highly-engaged fan base with your music.

08/08/2025

We’ve just had the pleasure of working with - who are an incredibly good up and coming band from southeastern Australia - on their new EP ‘Dancing In Decay’.

It’s been an amazing campaign with some seriously good results in terms of growth and discovery for the band, who have been championed by the like of

CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS

✅ 150K EP Streams
✅ New Record for Daily Spotify Streams
✅ New Record for Daily Spotify Listeners
✅ Streams jumped from 100 a day to 4K a day
✅ Spotify Algorithms Ignited producing their Best-Ever Return of Streams
✅ Followers doubled on both Spotify and Instagram
✅ 125K Accounts Reached via Ads

Get in touch with us if you have a release that you want marketing. Our strategies are designed to cut through the noise and deliver you results in the modern age of music.

23/07/2025

Two years ago released their ninth studio album ‘Will of the People’. Our producer Adrian Bushby worked across the project, making it the fourth album he has collaborated on with the band, alongside ‘The 2nd Law’, ‘Simulation Theory’ and ‘The Resistance’ - the latter of which won Adrian a Grammy Award for ‘Best Rock Album in 2011 (his second, following Grammy Award win for ‘Echos Silence Patience and Grace’ in 2008).

‘Will of the People’ debuted as the bands 6th consecutive U.K number-one record, and in 2023 the albums lead single ‘Kill or Be Killed’ was nominated for Best Rock Performance at the Grammy Awards, earning Adrian a nomination in the process for his engineering work on the track.

As you would expect from one of the defining bands of the last 25 years, it’s a phenomenal record that see’s the band on top creative form - if you’ve not heard it before, then go check it out.

We are proud to have had a small part in Adrians journey and legacy with Muse.

16/07/2025

It’s been fantastic to work with .tigrrr on ‘Skin’ - the artists most streamed release to date, with over 70,000 Spotify Streams. Our Spotify Playlist Campaign helped to set new records for Kid Tigrrr, including the most-ever Spotify Streams and Listeners in a single day.

The campaign helped to accelerate activity on Kid Tigrrr’s Spotify Profile, igniting the algorithms and organically growing followers in their hundreds.

✅ 70K+ Spotify Streams for Skin

✅ Officially Kid Tigrrr’s Most Streamed Spotify Track of All Time

✅ Spotify Radio Ignited for the First Time

✅ Skin was Kid Tigrrr’s Fastest Start for a New Release

✅ 370+ New Spotify Followers

Kid Tigrrr is a phenomenal artist - recently earning praise from the likes of . We are excited to hear what’s next…

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