Owen Brinley
James Field
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Shadow Committee
The Vague Archive
New Franchise
Influences
Cursive, My Bloody Valentine, The National, Radiohead, Blur, Low, Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Six By Seven, Craig Clevenger, Queens Of The Stone Age, Bowie, Arcade Fire, Suede, The Icarus Line, Irvine Welsh, The English Language, Idlewild, Les Guy Debords, The Veils, Douglas Coupland, Les Emites, Bjork, Seminals, Kate Bush, Bat For Lashes, Refused, This Et Al.
Sounds Like
Complicated pop music. Drunken macabre gypsy cabaret. Beautiful dissonance. Car-sickness. Arthritic fingers. Rheumatics. RSI. Post-Pop. Meanwood Road at night.
ALBUM
"You are looking at an album that is so rare, so well created and driven by people so talented, it is nothing short of perfect."10/10 - AudioScribbler
"Bona fide genius."8/10 - NME
"The blend of Owen Brinley's choirboy vocals and a raft of prog-tinged riffs is a source of promise, magic and drama."4/5 - Uncut
"Grammatics are doing something brave and truly exceptional."8/10 - Drowned In Sound
"Introducing the most accomplished newcomers to parade in 2009."8/10 - Clash
"An early contender for Rock Sound's Album's Of 2009."8/10 - Rock Sound
"This is post-pop at it's finest and more importantly feels like a step forward when many peers are staying resolutely put."4/5 - The Fly
"There's real heart to their art, and consequently, 'Grammatics' is a masterclass in uneasy listening."4/5 - Attitude
"One of 2009's most astounding, and in many ways unparalleled albums."9/10 - Contact Music
"'Grammatics' cannot help but end up being one of your favorite albums of the year."5/5 - For The Sound
"Grammatics have managed to achieve that increasingly difficult and incredibly exciting feat of managing to sound like a 'Step Forward'. A perfectly realised debut!"4.5/5 - God Is In The TV
"This debut is mind blowing!"10/10 - Rock Sellout
"Grammatics have taken the time it needed to make this album a perfect record of their current state of pop genius."10/10 - Whisperin' & Hollerin'
BAND
"Ambitious musical shape-shifters, Grammatics are a revelation." - NME
"Over-the-top strop pop... these kids are geniuses [sic]" - Artrocker
"Grammatics make a stunning art rock noise. " - Clash
"Some of the most epic, intelligent pop music produced by a British band in an awfully long time. Pretty fucking special." - Drowned In Sound
"Wonderful... sit-up-and-listen strange and at once arresting" - The Sunday Times
"Spellbinding" - The Fly
"One of the country's best bands...If they keep this up, they won't be the new whoever, by the end of the year everyone will be the new them." - Maps Magazine
DISCOGRAPHY
Double Negative b/w Notes In His Pockets
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'Grammatics'
on CD / DL / LP
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'Shadow Committee/Time Capsules & The Greater Truth'
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'The Vague Archive'
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New Franchise
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D.I.L.E.M.M.A. / Polar Swelling
on limited 10"/download SOLD OUT
Grammatics formed around April 2006 in a terraced house basement just outside Leeds city centre. We soon found that we share many mutual loves...argument, doing things in the most difficult possible manner and general pretentiousness. We are all deluded with grandeur. We write songs faster than we can learn them, rarely repeat song sections without warping them into something different and attempt to utilise any instruments we can find regardless of quality or tone. Grammatics are a stylistically diverse band and like to hop though most of the genres related to indie-rock. Maybe we are stylistically incoherent. Maybe we are self-indulgent. Hopefully we will please the ears of those susceptible to that kind of nonsense. Maybe you'll like our music...we don't especially care if you don't, otherwise it would hurt…The danger’s where you care...
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No gigs lined up?? I saw you in Truro in october, was great!!!!!! look forward to seeing you again, the albums still great after all those listens!!!!!
Hey. Loved the show in Bristol the other night. As I said, my favourite new band. Please come check out new stuff from my new band if you get a chance. Big love, 'Tino (Kill Cassidy/ex-XisLOADED)
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