Gordon Clarke - Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Backing Vocals
Michael Clarke - Bass, Trumpet, Backing Vocals
Michael Owen - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Keys, Harmonica
Mark Olszewski - Drums, Percussion, Loops, Noise, Backing Vocals
Influences
Almost too many to mention but random thought generation results in:
Musically: Elliott Smith, Sparklehorse, The Shins, Wilco, Death Cab For Cutie, Elbow, Grandaddy, The Cure, Crowded House, PJ Harvey, Augie March, Bob Dylan, Badly Drawn Boy, Radiohead, The Clash, Gillian Welch, The Go-Betweens, Interpol, The Velvet Underground, Iron & Wine, Ivy, Blur, The Beatles, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, The Breeders, The Police, Johnny Cash, Paul Kelly, The National, The Postal Service, Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy, The Verve, The Strokes, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Sigur Ros, Weezer, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Flaming Lips, Muse, U2, UNKLE, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, Belle and Sebastian, New Order, Devastations, The Plums, REM, Sarah Blasko, Smog, Sufjan Stevens, Townes Van Zandt, You am I, Dirty Three, Kings of Leon, Longpigs, Coldplay, The Kinks, Goldfrapp, The Bees, Ween, Spinal Tap.... and check our 'friends' for more possibilities ...
Motivationally: any independent original band anywhere on the globe, particularly those in our hometown.
Sounds Like
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"Every song was like the pinnacle of indie pop perfection that bands achieve usually, if at all, just once ... In all honesty, any Kinematic song you stumble upon, listen to it. It’s worth it."
Kinematic formed in 2000 after the dissolution of two Melbourne indie scene stalwarts, Snorkel and Aspirin.
Described as "affably challenging" and "clever, classy pop", Kinematic have been receiving rave reviews in Australia and overseas since the release of their debut album Time & Place in 2005.
The follow-up to Time & Place, The 38th Parallel, was released in May 2007. The 38th Parallel is the latitudinal line that runs through the band's hometown of Melbourne, Australia - on the other side of the equator, The 38th Parallel marks the border between North and South Korea, often referred to as a flashpoint during the cold war. The album traverses the array of musical styles that Kinematic love to plunder - be it Cash-tinged country or Sparklehorse-like trashy power pop - while always maintaining their unique sensibility for simple, stripped-back and singable pop tunes.
Kinematic are currently in post production for their as yet untitled third album, recorded in March. Contrary to prior time scales, the band is promising the album will be released by Spring. Stay tuned ...
Reviews of the new album, 'The 38th Parallel':
“…Their 2nd Album The 38th Parallel, is a beautifully constructed, impossible not to adore, wonderfully eccentric record, unlike anything you've ever heard before: simultaneously radio friendly and challenging, catchy and resonant. Which must be an extraordinarily difficult thing to achieve.”
Tony McMahon, Inpress Magazine, April 2007
This Melbourne band seems to know exactly what we want out of our indie-pop. A blend of the loudly lovely and the quietly desperate; a crispness always countered by a healthy dose of the haphazard.
Reviews of Kinematic and the debut album, 'Time & Place':
"The moody minor-key operettas of Elliott Smith meet the shuffling sound of a Calexico in this Australian group's compositions. It's exactly what indie pop should be: affably challenging, wounded but not whiny, and jammed with hooks that have more charm than sugar."
"... their songs reflect a street-level worldliness that is stories away from Coldplay. Like Muse without the bombast, Kinematic show a breadth of style and complexity that is seldom achieved while attempting to write actual songs. With 'Time and Place', Kinematic have produced an assured and mature debut
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Luke McKay, Beat Magazine, October 2005
Live Review:
"Kinematic were extraordinary. One of the top three bands I have seen at the Indie Initiative. A four piece with great three part harmonies. Acoustic guitar and acoustic bass, electric guitar and drums. Brilliant songs that swept me down to the front. Touches of Teenage Fan Club and other bands I couldn't name, but they added their own touches. You must see or hear this band."
hi :) you're welcome, I have been listening to your music for a while and also acquired some free downloads, however, I don't understand why you give the good stuff away for free...;o)but it's nice, thank you ;)keep on writing such good songs, cheers!
Launch went well but early night cos of sound restrictions at the Old Rob Roy now Newtown Workers club grrr..still had a good night tho and sold quite a few albums so all in all twas god:) Just finding it hard to get support for it all though. Cheers Sam
no worries i discovered u wen my old lady went to see u support the angels acoustics session and she got me a cd of urs....i love it. triage is my favourite song.
Sweet! I can't wait to hear it. :) Uni started two days ago and I'm already tempted to drop out and start a band...I'm studying Arts/Journalism - thinking of publishing/editing or maybe even looking at gig photography, for something completely different. Yup. So, tell me about the new album... =P
Oh goodness I missed you guys! Stupid Facebook. How are you guys? What have you been up to? Was listening to you on the bus to uni today and was like 'oh man, I need to get on MySpace more often...'
