Millimetre

Bio:

THE NEW MILLIMETRE ALBUM "13 HOMES" IS OUT IN MID-SEPTEMBER. ’13 Homes’ is a collection of songs about exile, wandering often lost and exploring new, alien surroundings. Through various journeys - from country to city, car to plane, street to bed - the album creates a travelogue of sorts, lighting on distinct, transitory characters on the way: the asylum seeker in ‘Hymmigrant’ and ‘Barefoot’, the One Night Stand Man on ‘Hands Free’, and the obsessive-compulsive in ‘Intimate With The Kitchen’. Some songs deal directly with McGaughey’s homeland and Irish politics and religion, though always ambivalent, and never dogmatic. Others, such as ‘lol’, celebrate the urban experience, the beauty of artifice and concrete; on ‘Frozen’, the lyrics of which were partly inspired by Robert Swindells' children's novel When Darkness Comes, the city is snow-white, cavernous and menacing. The album ends with a lover's meditation on their sleeping partner and the London night sky. In ‘13 Homes’ weather and traffic are an urban fugue, and the hard, orderly surfaces of the city, nebulous and unknowing as the ocean. REVIEWERS ON "HELIOGRAPHY": **"...dubby and expansive and full of dream-like imagery and strange characters. At times it calls to mind the likes of Magazine, the Banshees or ‘Spirit Of Eden’-era Talk Talk, albeit with a more electronic edge to it." - NME **"Heliography" is a slow motion waltz through a soundscape of dreamy vocals, phased-electro synths and multilayered, intertextual emotion. This is a grower of an album that won’t let you go" - Bearded Magazine

Member Since:

October 31, 2005

Members:

Terence J McGaughey

Influences:

Primarily the sounds of things around us - city white noise, wind, rain, beats coming from cars. Polyphonic/pluralist vocals/lyrics. Machine noise - household machinery, tube trains. Very old, bad tape and vinyl silence. Vintage samplers and filter pedals. Vox & Rickenbacker guitars. Drones, oscillations and squelches. Films, esp Kubrick and Egoyan. Noisy animals.

Sounds Like:

Urban-borne rural muck hammered into dream-pop ..

Record Label:

Orectic Records