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
'Grammatics'
on CD / DL / LP
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'Shadow Committee/Time Capsules & The Greater Truth'
on 7"/download
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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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Grammatics you are really genius perfect BAND!!!! :) i love your music and album is verry verry amazing ;) i hope to you are one time coming to Slovakia (bratislava city) :P good luck
laying alongside ASH / SUPERGRASS /DAMO SUZUKI (CAN) / VIEUX FARKA TOURE / THE CANDYSKINS /RED LIGHT COMPANY / WINTERSLEEP / FANFARLO / HJALTALIN / ERRORS / YACHT / DJ FOOD & DK / TOTAL SCIENCE / T.E.E.D./WILD BEASTS / A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS / GRAMMATICS /THE JOY FORMIDABLE / THE XCERTS / PULLED APART BY HORSES/ BROKEN RECORDS / MARK OLSON & GARY LOURIS / PETE MOLINARI
plus...
and so i watch you from afar/ calories/ chew lips/ colour/ danny and the champions of the world/ data select party / detroit social club/ dive dive/ dusty & the dreaming spires/ house of brothers/ skylarkin/ sportsday megaphone / the candyskins/ the elysian quartet/ the ghost of a thousand / the relationships/ the xx/ this town needs guns/ thomas truax/ treetop flyers/ truckers of husk/ we were promised jet packs/white belt yellow tag
Hey Y'all! This Month's Num Num Club @ 41 Monkgate Performing Arts Centre looks set to be a melting pot of brilliant local talent! Check it out!
Saturday 6th June: Andy Stones Lights Dream of Apollo GT Turbo Robert Loxley Hughes
Pretty Good huh?! Also the exceptionally good value Num Num Bar will be providing you all with liquid refreshment! Last month's night sold out, and there are no advanced tickets, so get down early to ensure a seat! Doors at 7:30pm and tickets are £6 otd.
41 Monkgate is about 100yds away from Monkgate Bar (the one by Bulmers second hand shop) and is just past The NHS drop in cntre and the Tap and Spile.
'The Black Trip' is a dark, oneiric short experimental film Directed by
Russell Lee Ford and Produced by British Getaway Films.
The short is in homage to 1950's film noir and the visuals refer to the
depiction of dream-like states within films of a femme fatale character
conventionally identified with this genre. The Film is soundtracked by Arrows
Down and features the Burlesque talent of Miss Betsy Rose
Before you watch this short film I am required to state that if you are
sensitive to flashing lights or you are easily aroused then for Health and
Safety you probably shouldn't watch it.
I still see no London date!... I'm going to make it one of my life goals to see you live. I've already made a pact with my friend. We're so coming to see you when you play in London! Rising, sleeping, walking, never waking, fast asleep. XXXXXX
