"Shiny metallic anti anti-pop. With one foot in the past and one in the future, they straddle genres and time, but sound fresh and relevant as a result, full of robotic hooks and sinister guitar growls." - Aloud.com
(live review)"My god, it’s just not right, that sound that comes out of Artefacts for Space Travel, and I’m so glad we got here with two hours to spare! It’s just HUGE, and look, they’re not even trying that hard. It’s cool as fuck beyond capital letters. There’s only three of Artefacts, a guitarist/vocalist, bassist and drummer, but the songs scrape the stars and adopt 90% of their sheen, some of them even take 100%, like ‘Lucy’, which sounds like the anthem that someone like Editors would always aspire to but are too damn serious and pretentious and self-conscious to achieve. Artefacts for Space Travel leave all these considerations suffocating in the dust, instead pulsing with the pulse and the absolutely fundamental joy and redemptive spirit of noise and music and art. Were this to be the last performance I ever see, I’ll be going out in a blaze of glory". - WWW.MIWSIG.CO.UK
"a futuristic dystopia of panic stricken pop, contains all the sinister and occult vibrations that a Naked Lunch reader could ever wish to consume." Artrocker
AFST give us Inspiration to 'Recoop'. Songs bend from noisy and growling psychedelia to panic stricken punk packed full of modern and haunting melodies. I’ve had “Recoop,” on repeat for the last week or so - Friction NYC
"Stolen Recordings are a label with an action plan for the UK rock underground, and with bands like Artefacts For Space Travel on their books the future is looking scarily cool." - Rough Trade
"Another great band to come from the Stolen Recordings label, Joe Walsh (Not the James Gang guitarist) drags you through his travels with clattering guitar riffs and an enticingly disturbing voice, spooky melodic noises seem to arise out of nowhere when listening to this three piece and their fucking exciting apocalyptic pop" - Feeding Time
"Brian Jonestown crunchiness and William Burroughs paranoia. Awesome." - Demo Kitchen
"Artefacts are three young dudes who play straight-up rock reminiscent of Nirvana and Pavement, but manage to contemporize in a way that makes it sound futuristic and sometimes spooky" - 'Sup Magazine
"The name, what does it mean? Is it out of some computer game? The singer/guitarist sings out of tune, he plays the wrong notes, and yet there is something intriguing about them. They are either incredibly good (possibly accidentally) or incredibly bad." - Manchester Evening News
AFST are a band from south London who offer you rock
ARTEFACTS FOR SPACE TRAVEL DIGITAL SINGLE 'LUCY'
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S T O L E N exhibition Private view: 6pm Thursday 3rd July, 2008 (for 1 week) The Aquarium L-13 Gallery, Farringdon Stolen Recordings present a group show of objects, fragments and documents that have functioned as either promotional material, merchandise or autonomously as the visual accomplice to an aural cohort.
BANDS/ARTISTS CONTRIBUTING INCLUDE: Billy Childish, Riceboy Sleeps (Jonsi Birgisson from Sigur Ros and Alex Somers from Parachutes), Mathew Sawyer, Pete and the Pirates, Tinhead (The Foals), James Cauty, Shanne Bradley (The Nipple Erectors) , Lets Wrestle, Jock Mooney (Dan le Sac VS Scroobious Pip artwork),Harry Pie, Paul Burgess, John Herve Peron (Faust), Fault Magazine, Geraldine Swayne, Fanfarlo, Shimmy Rivers and and Canal, STOT21stCPlanB, Rowland Smith, J.P Buckle, Caff/Lick, Freak Paeans, John & Jehn, Screaming Tea Party, Dave Mitchell (Ghost Club/ The 3D's),Wet Dog, Adrian R. Shaw & Daisy Shaw, The Grand library of young blood, Throwing Up In Comic Sans Fanzine, Buttonhead, Tome Records Feeding Time
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our old friends THE LODGER new single / album out on Bad Sneakers with bouncing bass and extra jangle here is their new video which is reallly nice: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=LGQ114DPvuY
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