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."
THE FACTION HALLOWEEN SPECIAL THIS FRIDAY!
IT'S THE FACTIONS LAST GIG OF 2010 BEFORE WE COME BACK WITH A CHANGE IN THE NEW YEAR. IT'S SURE TO BE A SPECIAL SPOOKY NIGHT SO GET ON IT WITH FANCY DRESS OPTIONAL!
SEB GREEN
LUNA MAY
JAMES CHADWICK, NEIL EVANS & IAN RICHARDSON
TIM HARDIE & JOSH DAVIES
BRADLEY CRICKET CLUB
FRIDAY 30TH OCTOBER
£4 FANCY DRESS OR £5 OTD
DOORS OPEN 7PM
I'm just helping spread the word about Sentric Music’s In The City showcase this Sunday @ Electric Boogaloo in Manchester.
The line up is The Federals, Gallops, Jamie Ley, MidiMidis and Dirty Goods. It’d be good to hear your thoughts on the line up so we can feedback to Sentric.
You need an ITC live wrist band to get into the gig which gets you into 3 days worth of gigs around Manchester and you can get here for twenty quid: http://bit.ly/2E8tz
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