Rock, Moustaches, Punk Rock, Riffs. Ex Models. Les Savy Fav. Hot Snakes. Minutemen. Sonic Youth. Thin Lizzy. Glen Campbell. Richard Hell. Shellac. The 'Cudas.
An Emergency is three WAY GNARLY dudes who get together to shred faces and melt hearts. They recorded the album of their LIVES and called it WRECKED ANGLES. Dan once did a knee slide on stage. Tom walked around the crowd banging a cymbal. Ben stood on top of amplifiers, PA systems and cabs. CABS IS CABS after all. At the moment the An Emergency beast is hiding from the arena of LIVE PERFORMANCE. Too many hearts were melted, so many fell after having their faces shredded. The blood had to stop running. An Emergency is alive in WAX! Tape! The STUFF cds are made FROM! Indulge your ear canals in CRAZY SHREDAGE! OUTRAGEOUS DRUM BUFFERY! DISCOMBOBULOUS SINGERING! BOOTY CAVING SYNTHOLOGY! OUTER LIMITS DELAY NONSENSE!
Ladies and gentlemen, for your PLEASURE we present WRECKED ANGLES.
AN EMERGENCY - Wrecked Angles (FAUX 007)
15-track 12" vinyl album. Limited to 225 hand-numbered copies. 100 off/clear and 125 rose pink coloured on heavyweight wax.
Released 16th June 2008.
Download versions are available from all yr regular haunts and a limited-edition cassette version of Wrecked Angles will be available soon! Keep checking back for details... WRECKED ANGLES REVIEWS:
BANG! This, friends, is avant-jazz-punk and if you like songs with choruses or, indeed, any form of structure, move on. Those left, put down your beard combs and pay attention; this is Les Savy Fav doing Captain Beefheart, a totally unpredictable racket that, for this reason, is double-mega. Exeter’s An Emergency (currently on live hiatus) hit you with frantic math-rock (‘Dead Cats’), hardcore muscle-flexing (‘Non Stop Movement Non Stop Force’) but can suddenly surprise with sublime astral art-rock (‘Let’s Get Forgotten’). Rolo Tomassi and now An Emergency? Seems the UK has itself a burgeoning braincore scene.
8/10 NME
‘Wrecked Angles’ is Exeter three-piece An Emergency’s parting shot, essentially album three of three (unless you treat a previous pair as EPs) and their finest collection of work by some margin. Where past work has writhed and spat, here muscles are flexed and teeth bared; submissive this punk noise most certainly is not... this is punk that snarls, that demands you to take flight to it or else it’ll have your jugular. It’s not evil, not inherently; it’s just that the strings all sound blood-soaked, the skins splashing crimson – passion manifested, made somehow more real than before. It’s Hot Snakes and Sonic Youth, fired-up kids and frustrations breaking the surface. It’s twitchy and tight, intricate and detailed; yet bombastic when bombast is necessary, screaming of methodology when such a course of action is the only option...
Clash Music
After five years, two EPs and countless live shows, Exeter/Brighton trio An Emergency are finally releasing a full-length into the expectant hands of an unforgiving world. 'Wrecked Angles' truly showcases An Emergency's most poignant and accessibly erratic work to date. Jarring yet smooth, a twisted sense of post-punk melody winds through all 15 spasmodically eloquent short, sharp tracks - discordant camouflaged surf rock staccato guitars, strong vocal lines, and shuddering unpredictable time signatures rendering the complete unit more perplexing in its fraught experimentalism yet more lucid than ever before. Available in all traditional formats including limited edition vinyl and cassette tape, An Emergency are truly the leaders of the post-punk pack. 9/10 Rocksound Magazine
The debut tape for Fair Ohs has 7 songs of their noisey garage punk meets Minutemen with the occasional psych noise jam. There are on 50 tapes, on a mix of purple, blue and lilac colours, all wrapped up in hand spun, hand stiched felt covers, pretty special!
