Gallops are impossible to sum up in a soundbite. Their music is too fresh, compulsive and inventive. It's cyborg soul music.
ADAM WALTON - BBC RADIO WALES
Post-rock, it appears, is alive and well, and living in Wales. A packed Kaz Bar sees a muscular set by Wrexham's Gallops, who successfully channel the riff-heavy, Oxes-style breed of post-rock, rather than Mogwai's snowflake prettiness/sonic maelstrom template. Fat, Sabbath-esque riffs underpinned with grooving drum patterns and smattered with laptop electronica; it's post-rock for the head and the heart, and a very promising start to the festival.
BEATRWTZ.COM
The town's silver lining has emerged: digital math-rockers Gallops, who have inherited more than horsey wordplay from their successful precursors.
While they’ve harnessed the jerky propulsion of Foals, the riffs-as-rhythm of Pivot and the synthy tomfoolery so beloved of Battles, it's all built on a bedrock of post-rock and they’re not afraid to unleash guitars as heavy as, say, Russian Circles.
NME.COM
"Gallops; an instrumental four piece from Wrexham sounding like the four horses of the apocalypse, listening to God Speed you Black Emperor! Exclamation mark and all. "
LOUD AND QUIET
"It's not just their equine referencing moniker that Wrexham's Gallops share with a band like Foals. A shared love of sonic experimenters Battles, Don Caballerro and Pivot is hugely apparent. Yet their sound is all their own. In the disorientating surroundings of a wine bar their furious, raw, motorised computer-led crank-rock proves extremely potent."
BBC NEWSBEAT
"If Wrexham seemed like the last place to find complex math-rock leanings, then that's because it is, making a group like Gallops all the more special and exciting. Marrying drums, guitars, sequencers, keyboards and general 'noise' this four piece play the sort of techno-glitchy rock synonymous with Pivot. This builds on songs like 'Crutches' on a dynamism akin to Foals, multiplying note patterns into an explosion of intense guitar work becoming almost a twisted club banger. Disparate layers of obsessive lilting melodies intelligently fused-Wrexham your time is now."
Hi, It’s DUSK TILL DAWN live music venue in North London. We just checked out your myspace and really like your stuff! If you’d like a slot contact dusktilldawngigs@hotmail.co.uk
So Wakestock was wet then was it? Pants! Loving the artwork on here. Need to pimp my profile a bit when i get my head round it. Will try and get you guys down in Sept - a North Wales special perhaps? B
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Good luck with Wakestock fellas! Have a cracking show & I expect full-on five star diva action from Moz, for Sideshow Bob and Goldie to work with, after last year! shweet, andy
Bydd uchafbwyntiau o berfformiadau Gallops yn Wakestock i’w weld mewn 3 rhaglen arbennig ar S4C. Sarra Elgan, Alex Jones a Huw Stephens fydd yn cyflwyno darllediadau S4C o’r wyl.
Nos Iau, 16 Gorffennaf am 9.00pm Nos Fercher, 22 Gorffennaf am 9.35pm Nos Fercher, 29 Gorffennaf am 9.00pm
Bydd uchafbwyntiau o berfformiadau Yr Ods yn Wakestock i’w weld mewn 3 rhaglen arbennig ar S4C. Sarra Elgan, Alex Jones a Huw Stephens fydd yn cyflwyno darllediadau S4C o’r wyl.
Nos Iau, 16 Gorffennaf am 9.00pm Nos Fercher, 22 Gorffennaf am 9.35pm Nos Fercher, 29 Gorffennaf am 9.00pm
We're proud to announce our debut EP 'Chemicals' is available to buy NOW on iTunes, Amazon, Big Cartel. We have also printed a limited number of hard copies which will feature exclusive additional artwork and available only at our shows.
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Oi! Nope, we don't have any shows lined up yet. But we plan to tour around Europe as well as England in fall 09 and all of 10. Only thing is we gotta release this album that we're soon done mixing....and then, we get all mad and play shows with you, split venues and eat asphalt chips... Dynamite! xxxMikkel
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