*(file under "Rolling Indie" Filter)
I haven't seen these guys mentioned on here yet, but I have really liked their 2 singles, "Bathroom Gurgle" and "Bears are Coming" (and the singer's side project LA Priest single, "Engine").
They get grouped in with Klaxons (and, you know, "Nu-Rave"), but they don't really sound like them. The vocalist sometimes sounds a lot like FNM-era Mike Patton, I think. They are kind of all over the place (some 8-bit kinda stuff, some 'dance-punk,' some big anthemic choruses - like I said, er, "I haven't seen these guys mentioned on here yet"). I think they've got tunes, but I don't know if they could pull off a Klaxons-y crossover.
Anyway, I love the opening drums bit and freaky synth line on this song: Bears Are Coming video
And the chorus to this one has a kind of cool Blood Brothers-doing-Bowie thing about it: Bathroom Gurgle video
Am I riding solo on this?
― Savannah Smiles, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
All the songs I've heard sound like Gary Numan but w/a comedy Rocky Horror bit in the middle.
They must be mentioned somewhere else on ILM coz I said exactly the same on that thread.
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i downloaded their demo after i played out the broken remix off kitsune maison 5 & im feelin it
― and what, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
dudes kinda remind me of like frank zappa type wacky shit too but in a good way
― and what, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
lol cant stop listening to "bathroom gurgle" - songs that go from numan to queen to devo in 3 parts :D
― and what, Sunday, 18 May 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I think they're great. Saw them live a few months ago, the keyboard player was exactly a glam-Brian Eno alter ego, and the frontman is mad in the best way. Sometimes they even resembled Sparks (in the song "White Snake"), but the Numan-like "Space and the Woods" is their best track. Also I like "Bathroom Gurgle".
― zeus, Sunday, 18 May 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah this is kinda the perfect comedown to having played out the cut copy album - same pastiche of slightly different influences done a lil bit more lo budget full of hooks and funny weird interludes and all mixed up exactly what i want from rock music
― and what, Sunday, 18 May 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
man im still feelin this demo is there an album yet
― and what, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i gave one of these guys' singles a 5-star review for the student radio station, so relieved to find something that tried a little more than the usual rote british indie crap
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
think it was "Bears Are Coming"
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
haha yeah i've gotten to the chorus now, it was definitely "Bears Are Coming"
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
thats like the worst joint on the demo man
― and what, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
just getting to the end of a first listen of the album - and indeed my first listen of them at all - and i'm rather taken by them. numan/queen/devo all accurate spots - i'd add elton john/who-esque broadway pomp too - and there's a lot of personality in there. new it ain't, but refreshing it somehow is nonetheless. hmmm.
and to think i'd long assumed they'd sound like jack penate.
― CharlieNo4, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
also, richard o'brien totally!
i still think this is pretty dope
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Fantasy_black_channel.jpg album drops in august :D
― and what, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
great cover
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
its aite but liked the singles covers more http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Late_of_the_Pier_Space_and_the_Woods_cover.jpg http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/001/401/0000140112_350.jpg and esp. http://sp0.fotologs.net/photo/48/38/71/jotajota2/1204843232_f.jpg
― and what, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
crut did i send u this shit or was that jordan sargent
cant remember which indie rock luvving underage witeboiz i get mp3s to
was me
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 July 2008 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
demos were great but i think better production will be cool
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 July 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
you sent me the youtubes
knowing me I'd probably like the demos better than the fully-produced bullshit which they'll probably make to sound like Metro Station
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
They played the best gig at the Melt! festival in Germany last week, terrific live band. As Charlie wrote above: nothing new, but refreshing, and finally a new British band with personality. Wondering how their album will perform?
― zeus, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard one song and it reminded me of Metronomy.
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
album is consistently awesome
― cutty, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
it really is, with one or two songs a bit tiring, but the rest is perfect.
― zeus, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
are those covers by kate moross ? they have the same kind of use of angles etc.
― mark e, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i need to cop this i been needing some new rock ish since the cut copy dropped & all i listen to is jefferson starship
― and what, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
-- and what, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 13:31 (2 months ago) Bookmark Link
This is a really good summation of the song 'Heartbeat' off the album which has this nutso synthesised metal guitar which is nothing like I expected. I like it! Dunno if I'm gonna end up liking the album overall though
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 25 July 2008 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
surely i will love this
― blueski, Friday, 25 July 2008 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone knowledgeable enough about these guys to take an educated guess at how much Erol Alkan's production has to do with the overall sound? ie whether they would have ended up at this glammy synthrock place whoever was at the controls
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 25 July 2008 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
The demos are pre-Alkan aren't they?
Don't like Alkan at all as a producer.
― Raw Patrick, Friday, 25 July 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think I do either but I like this! On initial exposure at least. It's very... arresting
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 25 July 2008 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i like this a lot more than i expected.
― mark e, Monday, 28 July 2008 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Alkan did a good job now, I think.
― zeus, Monday, 28 July 2008 09:37 (fifteen years ago) link
best part of their Bears Are Coming release = prism glasses that came with
― san frandisco, Monday, 28 July 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
This LP is gross, like an album the Mighty Boosh would make. Worse than the comedy Numan bits are the mock-pomp fake-Muse bits w/bad dbl-gtr. The whole thing's like a winking face emoticon on wax.
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw them close the Secret Garden Party at the weekend - pretty awesome live show! And there's a lot less ironic Barley posturing than I expected, ie basically none.
By and large, they came across like Add N To (X) playing the Rocky Horror soundtrack, straight. I'm all for that sort of behaviour.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
-- CharlieNo4, Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:34 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
this sounds dope
― and what, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i am loving this album so much. for shame
― Alan, Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm, erm, kind of distracted by their goodlookingness. Is it going to be work the 20 minutes it's going to take to watch a YouTube video? Charlie is intriguing me with that description, but we often disagree on music.
― The Lesser of Two Weevils (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
eh? they're standard lanky indie streaks of piss to look at
yrs, a 40yr old man
― Alan, Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
oh - hai kate! :-D
― Alan, Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, that's very very attractive to this 40 yr old woman! Could you not tell it was me before you even got to the end of the post? ;-)
I've got halfway into the video (stupid connection speed) and so far really like the drums and the squelchy synth noises. The vocals aren't really doing it for me, I think I'd like them better if they went a bit more Daft Punk.
Wait, I've got another minute and the purple dude just turned up so I'm going to go and look some more.
― The Lesser of Two Weevils (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
there are daft punky bits - which these days = squally synth noise stuff - throughout.
rather than muse - a lot of the tracks remind me, really randomly (as acoustically there's no similarity) of the first supergrass album. all the energy and lurching around.
― Alan, Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, I liked the first song - but that could have had a lot to do with the undeniably GREAT video. (That Bears song.) I don't know if I'd have had the same positive reaction if I'd just heard it randomly in a club.
It always really kind of sways me too much, watching music rather than listening to it. I'm aware that I shouldn't be judging bands by these criteria, as it's the work of a director and art crew...
I know that image and art direction and videography are all an important part of a band's appeal. But I still feel suspicious and manipulated when I respond to that too quickly.
I'll watch another song.
― The Lesser of Two Weevils (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Focker:<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cz5Dei5O3xY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cz5Dei5O3xY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
― Alan, Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
bah to nu nu nu ilx code :-D
I'll watch that one next, in about half an hour, or whenever this bloody slow connection lets me.
So far, their videos are utterly fantastic. Whoever does their art direction is a genius.
But the problem is, I'm really not really noticing the music. The drums in this one (has a Space title) are not as fantastic as that one with the Bears. They're just kinda boring sub Franz Ferdinand indie disco.
They are also exceedingly cute as far as indie streaks of piss go. (I especially like the ginger one, he's lovely, he is.)
― The Lesser of Two Weevils (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i can not get the rythmn monotone synth line of Space and the Woods out of my head
― Alan, Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
That's the one, the drums just picked up. Connection just froze again, just as it started to get good.
I like this in a kind of weird prog-synth-romo-freako way that I *didn't* like MGMT.
― The Lesser of Two Weevils (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Just got to the middle 8. Fuckin' hell, the drummer kicks ass. I think this is what lifts it above bog standard pseudo-80s shit - good rhythm section.
― The Lesser of Two Weevils (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, the kick-ass drummer is the cute ginger one?
This changes EVERYTHING.
Hello new favourite band of the moment.
― The Lesser of Two Weevils (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 14 September 2008 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoever does their art direction is a genius.
But the problem is, I'm really not really noticing the music.
otm
― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Sunday, 14 September 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm trying to listen to that song Alang posted above without looking at the video, and it does actually sound quite good. This one sounds more like a playful version of Trans Am's Sex Change.
Don't like the singer, but the drumming is just fantastic.
Wow, an NME-feted band I don't hate. Astonishing.
― The Lesser of Two Weevils (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 14 September 2008 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
this is pretty good, although they're sorta stuck in 6th gear for the majority of proceedings
"the enemy is the future" and "space and the woods" probably the best tracks, "heartbeat" and "broken" close behind
― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Sunday, 28 September 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
You're wrong. It's fairly universally acknowledged that Bears Are Coming and Focker are the best of the bunch.
The singer has grown on me, I like his voice better live than on the records. I just like the rhythm section more and more. that's the key to why I like them so much more than yr usual NME/Carling Nurave, I think - they do actually have a really tight drummer and bassist who can stop and start on a dime (5p UK) to pull of those mad histrionic Zappa/Beefheart segues.
― hard, ginger, nuts (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Played them for the people I stayed with this week, and he said they reminded him of Stump, which also seemed a fair assessment.
oh sorry for being wrong about my favourite tracks
― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
You didn't say favourite, you said "best". ;-)
― hard, ginger, nuts (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
unbelievably, this gets better with repeat listens
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
lou what are the best few songs on this
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
"Broken", "Space And The Woods", "Heartbeat", "Focker", "The Enemy Are The Future" for me, but it's pretty consistent.
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
eh ill stick to klaxons
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
based on "space and the woods" and "hearbeat" they have way better instrumental hooks than vocal ones
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
synth player is the man in this band
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 October 2008 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link
well i dig this shit, is all
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Thursday, 23 October 2008 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm still loving "Bears Are Coming". Some really great percussion on that track.
Also the "Space and the Woods" video, which is keen.
― Telephone thing, Thursday, 23 October 2008 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link
It does, it does!
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 October 2008 09:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Bears Are Coming has some of the best drums I've heard in YEARS. My friend said "meh, this sounds like a techno version of Adam and the Ants with prog bits" to which I said AND YR PROBLEM WITH THAT IS?!?!?!
My second fave song is FOCKER - mainly for the tronic youth breakdown bit at the end where they go all BOOM TISH TISH BOOM CHUCKA CHUCK BOOM TISH TISH BOOM CHUCKA CHUCK BOOM TISH TISH BOOM CHUCKA CHUCK - wub wub wub - BOOM TISH TISH BOOM CHUCKA CHUCK.
But I am a sucker for wub, as you well know.
I don't think they sound much like Klaxons at all, but then again, I've only heard two Klaxons songs in my life and though they were very "meh" so YMMV.
Synth player, "the man"? In those frocks? Dude weareth outfits that Brian Eno would dismiss as "a bit gay" - but hey. It's all good.
I think it's clearly all about THE DRUMS THE DRUMS THE DRUMS AND EVEN MORE DRUMS!!!
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I have seen them live a couple of times now, the drummer does all that shit WITHOUT click track and without headphones, I do not know how, only conclusion = HE IS MADE OF WIN.
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
funny, just picked the album up again today after a two-month gap, and can confirm it's even better now than it was in the summer. currently obsessing over 'the enemy are the future' - so many layers!
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 23 October 2008 12:40 (fifteen years ago) link
you mean like all that weird stuff in Bears? and is it actually a teacup or something like that you can hear being used just before the munchkin orgy section?
does anyone else hear this album less as tracks, more as 45-70 second chunks of crazy stuff.
i found it very difficult to STOP listening to this, but i managed it. for about a week. and cos you asked for it (hem) here are tracks in my order of aceness
FockerVWSpace And The WoodsThe Bears Are ComingWhitesnakeHeartbeatRandom FirlThe Enemy Are The FutureHot Tent Blues / BrokenBathroom GurgleMad Dogs And Englishmen
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
"currently obsessing over 'the enemy are the future' - so many layers!"
YES. and glad i got the album proper, as the download i had cut this short - not long after the funky 'locked groove' synth section.
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
hurrah for the 'wub wub wub' in focker
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I like me some angular synth punk but wish more of this was slower and funkier.
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"The Enemy Are The Future" is my favourite, and one of my tracks of the year. So lush, so addictive, and one of the most genuinely outrageous song-titles in recent memory just to add icing.
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
― hard, ginger, nuts (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:48 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
OK, I'm officially interested now.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
it's an easy life, yes it's an easy life it's an easy life
NO IT'S A HARD LIFE HARD LIFE IT'S A HARD LIFE HAAAAAAARD!!!
no it's an easy life yes it's an easy life
See them live, they're really incredible. Like, they do ALL of that mad switching stuff totally live.
I thought it was all going to be sequenced to a click track but no, the rhythm section is totally prog, and Boy Synth Wizard Potter triggers the samples to the drums, rather than vice versa so they can do all those mad SPEED UP and slow down and mainly SPEEEEEEED UP things live and loose and beautiful.
(Sorry the teacup munchkin noises aren't done live, they're all triggers on Potter's lovebox. (except for the bits that are actually cowbell.) The mad drumming at the beginning is, though, it's an AMPLIFIED BEDFRAME!!! How can you not love a band mad enough to use an amplified bedframe as an instrument, Fabulous Furry Freak Brother stylee?)
See, I don't think these guys belong in Nu Rave at all - they're far more along the Captain Beefheart continuum.
I am actually going to go to ::GASP:: Bugged Out at Heaven to see them again. Oh, the shame!
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Mark, they're more like an amalgamation of all the good things that Klaxons / MGMT / Foals promised in theory but didn't deliver in practise, but younger and brattier and wittier and more inventive and more instinctive and more reckless and more (sigh) "angular" (but in the best sense of the word). It's also quite "teenage MySpace electro", as someone put it on another thread - but again, in a good way.
I am absolutely longing to see them live. Which shouldn't be too difficult, considering they're local.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, they're in NYC right now and not planning on going home for a while so it might be a while. Sorry!
And they're more textural than angular. (ha ha, ILM bugbear words)
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Now, you just hand them back, d'you hear?!
Another band who match their jumpy angular/textural (!) electronics to a trad live rhythm section, without any pre-programmed beats, are Holy Fuck. They were astonishing when I saw them play last week.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
first band in ages i want to go out and see live (and not just from kate's enthusiasm)
(actually go on tour with, be a roadie for, if i'm getting just a little carried away.)
also: what mike said about inventive and instinctive and reckless.
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:56
WHO ARE YOU AND WAHT HAVE YOU DONE WITH KAET
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
THE LORD OF THE BEASTS COMMANDED ME!!!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/legolass20034/Graphics/a2113387.png
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, OK, So I'll get one, already! Sheesh!
(:-)
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
LOOK INTO MY EYES. YOU ARE GETTING SLEEEEPY. VERY SLEEEEEEEPY. YOU WILL BUY THE ALBUM. YOU WILL PLAY IT LOADS. YOU WILL LOVE THIS ALBUM. YOU WILL BE MY SLAVE. AND WHEN I SNAP MY FINGERS YOU WILL AWAKE AND NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THIS CONVERSATION.
http://a864.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/96/m_dfef676d68d68237db20063060f51d77.gif
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
ooh-er
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Hi, there. How yz all been?
(bye)
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
It's not Kate Moross what did the artwork. Apparently it's a man named Daniel Has Potential.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhpee/
Very interesting stuff - I *love* the map of the album he did, I wish that had been included in the album as a poster or something!
― Ironic Erection (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
just saw them in a ridiculously sweaty zodiac/carling academy/whatever it is now: by the end they were topless, and all I could think was 'oh if only Kate were here!'
they were ace, btw.
― c sharp major, Monday, 16 February 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Biggest disappointment of 2008 albums list = where the fuck is Fantasy Black Channel
― there's no antivote to (country matters), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
So anyway, I take it this bunch have packed it, yeah?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
so young, peace god
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
These guys were really great. What ever became of them?
― Walter Galt, Monday, 17 February 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
the main songwriter joined connan mockasin for the completely incredible 'please turn me into the snat/forever dolphin love' album. then left connan mockasin who subsequently put out a lamentable record last year. absolutely no idea on the others
― Know Scot! Free Getaway: Glen, Handa Island, Rua Reidh (imago), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
That explains so much about Connan Mockasin
― Iain Mew (if), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
that album last year was so pathetic, and after such a truly classic record
― Know Scot! Free Getaway: Glen, Handa Island, Rua Reidh (imago), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
I know this is going to sound uncharitable, but they're one of those bands I'm *so glad* never put out a followup. After the amount of hype, and the impossibility of sustaining it, and how many brilliant bands get savaged for failing to reach the giddy heights of their debut - I just think it's so much better that they put out one such perfect record, and then disappeared. It's just a fantastic artefact of a moment. I don't want to know what happened next.
― ~Autotelic Fabulousity~ (Branwell Bell), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/21/late-of-the-pier-drummer-ross-dawson-dies-in-sudden-accident/
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 May 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
aw hell
rip
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Thursday, 21 May 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
not sure about this LA Priest stuff tbh
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link