Owen Brinley
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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
On 7"/MP3
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'Grammatics'
on CD / DL / LP
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'Shadow Committee/Time Capsules & The Greater Truth'
on 7"/download
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'The Vague Archive'
on 7"/download
New Franchise
free download - www.grammatics.co.uk
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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Great stuff. We've been writing loads of tunes and playing some good gigs, and other gigs in Rugby. Touring in December, recording in Jan. Usual stuff. Hope to see you all soon.
Hey saw you guys supporting bloc party in cambridge. Sorry about the pricks who heckled you. i thought you were very good! keep making good music please :) much love
Alrite , hows it going, its AA here from the truro gig again, am surprised there are'nt more comments on here...but i suppose myspace isnt as popular as it used to be, hope the rest of the bloctober tour went well!
Hi Grammatics! Just popping by to say I thought your set supporting Bloc Party in bournemouth was fantastic, i really enjoyed it :D especially Shadow Comittee.
my friend told me about your tunes in the summer, and ive been listening non-stop since, and when I found out you were supporting Bloc Party I was very excited! Hopefully you guys will be playing near bournemouth soon, would love to see you again harri xx
Hey, really liked your set the other night at Cambridge, I've uploaded some of the photos, if you have time, please check them out and tell me what you think thanks (: x
Yooo guys, hows it going? Im one of the five guys that met you around the back when we got chucked out, u were amazing for your first one and a half songs i have to admit! Best band i saw all night! Lol u will have to get back to me and tell us when u are next in nottingham or nearby! And get us on the guest list like u said! Lol it was nice meeting u two and having a chat! Maybe we can meet all of u next time, hope so! Keep up the good work! X
hey guys i decided to look you up before ur show at the centre and i managed to singa long to quite a few of ur songs :) u wer bloody amazin my friends thort so too
Alrite, saw you in truro, managed to speak to u at the end for a few seconds! was interupted by a girl who wanted a picture with you :( i dont think she was a proper fan either..ha.. never mind tho.... was v impressed with your set...sounded really good, as i said to you i came to see you...not bloc party and was not dissapointed! hope the album does well...it shud do...its the best thing ive heard for quite a while, cheers, alex
Hey guys, I'm Ed. I spoke to you after the Brighton show on Saturday, got a 7" signed, it was a great set and I hope you're having a great end to the tour! I was just wondering if you could have a listen to my own stuff and see what you think, as I said to your drummer about it afterwards and he said to say about it on here. It's acoustic stuff, I've only just turned 16 and have an album on iTunes, so if you could listen and tell me what you think that'd be great :) Also, my band, In Mono, is doing some recording on Saturday, so I'll give you more details nearer the time.
Thanks again for a great show, looking forward to hearing from you
your new song Double Negative is absolutly amzing, and i bet its even better live! shame im going to miss this whole bloc party tour tho :( make sure you come back to norwich so we can support you again :)
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