The Dismemberment Plan, Radiohead, Mew, Hood, Rachel's, Subtle, Sufjan Stevens, Steve Reich, Four Tet, Emiliana Torrini, Death Cab For Cutie, My Bloody Valentine, This Town Needs Guns, Mogwai, St. Vincent, Final Fantasy, Just 3, Kaki King, Krzysztof Penderecki, Nick Drake, Oceansize, Olafur Arnalds, Slint, Erik Satie, PJ Harvey, Deerhoof, Bloc Party, Sigur Ros, Massive Attack, Patrick Wolf, Cats and Cats and Cats.
The quality which myspace makes the tunes is shocking.! The production on the songs has actually come out quite nicely considering we only have two microphones to record with (and dynamic ones at that(!)) but myspace covers up this fact seemlessly. quite saddening.
The band began in the winter of two-thousand and five when the ebullient Adam and the august Evan - then studying at college together - gravitated towards being in cahoots with one another because of a mutual admiration for the word 'tapas' without knowing its meaning.
Some quantity of years later - after much painful struggling against painfully bad songs and excruciating band names - the illustrious Holly became prevalent on the scene. All were besotted by her agreeably killer bass themes.
Along the way drummers drifted by like elusively translucent vexation fabricators. For a short while the licentious James was tied down to fill this role; but he soon got abducted and was last seen tripping the light fantastic on the incongruous streets of Norway.
Soon after this the search was recommenced in high and low places, until one fortuitous day in two-thousand and eight when a flyer upon a notice board in a successful manchester branch of a successful chain of music stores was spied by the nonpareil Rodrigo. All were enthralled by his pleasingly quick-witted grooves.
Smooth was the sailing from that day to this. And the sailing in the future, though perhaps occasionally inadvertently diverted by overt and unforgiving examples of landmass, shall continue to continue this way.
Then we can begin to subjugate and work towards lamentation.
Mr. Martin kindly filmed one of our rehearsals before our first gig. These here are the best bits (these are with previous drummer James 'Norskie' Thomson):
’To Celebrate the release of International Love Affair, our brand spanker new single. The Laurel Collective are giving away a FREE track ‘Golden Phone’ a cover of the track by their good friends ‘Micachu and The Shapes’
To grab your free copy, go to our myspace site and click on the golden phone image. Enjoy!
The legendary musical hero, Horatio Lee Jenkins, brought us such inspirational masterpieces as "DRUNKER THAN SATAN", "OH SH!T I DON'T FEEL SO GOOD", and "GIRL, THIS BED IS TOO BIG WITHOUT ALL 12 OF YOU".
Horatio, the WORLD'S MOST POTENT HETEROSEXUAL, now brings us a new uplifting anthem of hope, acceptance, and unconditional Christian love:
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Like fellow Liverpudlians Hot Club De Paris...with bouncy, choppy riffs and a very much danceable rhythm, synths swirl like a demented fairground ride while the boys perform fantastic, sing along harmonies. MAKE NOISE AND DANCE
Elks
Jerky post hardcore pop complete with rousing manic vocals. a bitn like Fugazi and Charlottefield FOOTBALL
Rotary Ten
Latest signings to Xtra Mile (home of Dartz!) "'If The Smiths had gone to college in the US this might have been their sound. Complex, melodic guitar entwines with an 'anthemic' chorus. Possible classic.' The Observer
Beat The Radar
"catchy vocal melodies with precise backing vocals on top of angst guitar and clever drums create a package for success" SANDMAN MAGAZINE
hey guys!thanx for the request!your experiments can change the face of the whole pop scene!keep it up!can notice some strong brian eno and french pop feel in it! keep in touch! much love rubika
MAKE BELIEVE "going to the bone chruch" CD - special pre order offer!
if you pre-order your copy from us between may 1st and may 8th you'll get a cheaper price and we will ship it before the official releasedate (may 16th) . Pre-order price is:
10€ within germany 12€ in europe
both including postage..... to place your order please send an email to info@coraille.com. The best way to pay is paypal by the way. MAKE BELIEVE fans take note: in late summer we will put out a limited edition (500) reissue of the first ep on 12"vinyl in cooperation with EXPECT CANDY
Napoleon IIIrd will now be playing this Friday April 4th at Cafe Saki instead of Itch.
Therefore the full line up is now
Napoleon IIIrd
"Napoleon IIIrd is possibly the most visionary solo artist on the planet at this moment in time....the most striking aspect of Napoleon IIIrd’s set is the huge propensity of sound one single man can make. Shut your eyes for a second and you’d expect the stage to be filled by some 12-piece orchestra." Drowned in Sound
"Itch are quite breathtakingly, pant-twitchingly awesome. Songs stop, start, fall over themselves, kick themselves up the arse, explode into cataclysmic bursts of energybefore suddenly veering off into seemingly irreconcilable tangents that seamlessyly reconcile themselves within the space of a few minutes"
Arms At Last
"Arms At Last sound like what would happen if Dartz! and Hot Club De Paris had an affair." FuckingDance. blogspot. com
The Search Map
’Glitch ridden intelli pop of the highest order - like TV On The Radio playing Modest Mouse at their tenderest’ - Subba-Cultcha
My Amiga
Plenty of harmonies, hand claps and guitar taps make for another band to add to the list of super fun bands being produced in Liverpool at the moment.
thanx for the add i am a fun of your music we have different ways of expression thats why your freely "post-pop" compositions are balancing pretty in my head... keep up & thanx for the comment im glad you find a song to express you also
I really wouldn't worry about the sound quality. This is great. I really like 'Festivity' loads - i've given it a fair bit of tickling today. You sort of remind me of Hood a bit. Ta for popping by.
