"My disability restricted me so much." How Alt Blk Era beat the odds to become Britain's most exciting new alternative band

Alt Blk Era.

It’s 6pm on a Tuesday, and Alt Blk Era are snowed in. Yet the sisters – 20-year-old Nyrobi and 17-year-old Chaya Beckett-Messam – are unfazed by the inches stacking up outside their home in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.

“We don’t really have a typical life outside of music. We’re not at the clubs or hanging out,” Nyrobi explains via Zoom, of why they’re so at ease tonight. “We’re very much inside working nonstop.”