They were brilliant. It's easy to forget how young they are when you listen to their songs and watch them perform with such confidence. Yes a few of their songs can pass you by and a few tracks have a bit of a cut and paste feel to them but songs such as 'Into The City' (I believe that's what it's called) more than make up for that.
Their sound is verging on the epic whilst retaining the quirky pop-punk sound of acts such as Maximo Park. It's refreshing to see a band who have chosen to work in a voice that seems naturally their own rather than a cobbling together of other cult indie styles, which so many bands seem to do.
Their debut (I assume) EP should be out soon complete with fantastic artwork from local artist Steve Mahn. I've heard it already - it sounds great. It was recorded by my favourite local producer - Richard Sparkes.
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I spent a great deal of time last night mulling over the possibilities of me starting to write and produce electronica with the intent of performing it live. I haven't really felt motivated to produce much recently and a shift in focus is much needed.
I have been planning for a while now to work on some 'ambient' recordings and to fuse these together with some 'found sounds' to create more textural electronic music. A big focus of this project would be natural builds and developments within particular sounds, for example, the change in texture as water comes to the boil.
This could work well in a live situation, presenting an audience with sounds not normally heard inside a gig venue, and a human element would be added in the form of myself playing electric guitar and possibly manipulating some of the sounds live via my laptop.
But I have to ask myself whether my time would not be better spent developing new material and performance ideas for my existing folk set. Remembering that I refuse to merge my existing sound with an electronic one.
Of course I will continue to work on my electronic music - I enjoy creating it and exploring ideas that are out of reach with only an acoustic guitar, but I wonder whether the stage should be the end goal for my work. I don't think I'm going to rule the possibility out at this moment and I have a lot of ideas floating around which need to be explored before I can make my final decision.
Who knows, perhaps Der Meinhof (a possible stage name I invented last night on my ride home) will be assaulting your audio senses in a new electronic fashion soon.
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