Our Indie Rock & Grunge Rock forefathers:
The Beatles (Revolver, Abbey Road, Help – singled out + all)
Billy Corgan+The Smashing Pumpkins (all)
Depeche Mode (Violator, Songs Of Faith and Devotion + all)
Joy Division (Substance)
Daniel Johns+Silverchair & The Dissociatives (all)
My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)
Kent (all)
Sonic Youth (Goo, Daydream Nation)
The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds)
Stone Roses (all)
The Smiths (all)
Ride (Carnival of Light)
Jesus and The Mary Chain (Phsycocandy, Barbed Wire Kisses)
Richard Aschroft + The Verve (all)
Wannadies (all)
Salt (Auscultate)
Stardog (In Order To Disorder)
The Cardigans (all)
Paul Weller+The Jam (all)
The Cure (Disintegration, Wild Mood Swings)
Super Furry Animals (Guerilla, Rings Around The World)
Slowdive (Just For A Day, Catch The Breeze)
Medicine (all)
Mazzy Star (all)
Teenage Fan Club (Bandwagonesque, Grand Prix)
Slint (Spiderland)
Pale Saints (The Comfort Of Madness)
Chapterhouse (Blood Music)
Suede (all)
Oasis (all)
Ocean Colour Scene (all)
The Seahorses (Do It Youself)
Blur (all)
Radiohead (all)
Placebo (all)
Ash (1977, Free All Angels)
Babylon Zoo (Spaceman)
Sneaker Pimps (all)
Portishead (all)
DJ Shadow (The Private Press)
Nirvana (all)
Pearl Jam (Ten, Vs, Yield)
Alice In Chains (all)
Candlebox (Candlebox, Happy Pills)
Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger, Down On The Upside)
The Nixon (Foma)
Jeff Buckley (Grace)
Dinasour Jr (Where You Been)
Tad (all)
Mudhoney (March To Fuzz)
The Afghan Whigs (1965)
Garbage (all)
Veruca Salt (8 Arms To Hold You)
7 Year Bitch (all)
Hole (all)
Weezer (Weezer, Pinkerton)
Pavement (all)
Kara’s Flower (all)
Sebadoh (all)
Liz Phair and the Material Issue (all)
Our Recent Influences:
Keane (all)
My Vitriol (all)
Abandoned Pools (Armed To The Teeth)
StarSailor (all)
Damien Rice (all)
Missy Higgins (we listen to her through anything!!)
Death Cab For Cutie + The Postal Service (all)
Mute Math (Reset-EP & Mute Math)
Haven (Between The Senses)
Aqualung (Strange n Beautiful, Memory Man)
Coldplay (all)
Hard Fi (Stars Of CCTV)
The Kooks (Inside In/Inside Out)
Delays (all)
Paloalto (Heroes and Villains)
Black Box Recorder (England Made Me)
Addict (Stones)
The Afters (I Wish We All Could Win)
Switchfoot (Nothing Is Sound, The Beautiful Letdown)
Geneva (Weather Underground)
Longview (Mercury)
Secrect Machines (Ten Silver Drops)
Pure Essence (all)
Interpol (all)
The Stills (Logic Will Break Your Heart)
Emilliana Torrini (all)
Asian Dub Foundation (Facts and Fictions, Enemy of The Enemy)
Rufus Wainwright (Want One)
Ray LaMontagne (Trouble)
Gotan Project (all)
Sigur Ros (all)
Mogwai (Come On Die Young, Young Team)
Misc influences:
Kate Bush (Never For Ever, The Whole Story)
Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here)
Duran Duran (all)
TOOL (Undertow, Aenima, 10,000 Years)
James Marshall Hendrix (all)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (all)
U2 (The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby)
Nuno Bettencourt + Extreme (Pornogratifiti, 3 Sides To A Story)
Jason Wade + Lifehouse (all)
Paul Westerberg (14 Songs)
Everclear (Sparkle and Fade)
Collective Soul (all)
Gin Blossoms (all)
Remy Zero (all)
Reef (all)
Natalie Imbruglia (White Lilie Island)
Boomkat (Boomkalatog One)
Atari Teenage Riot (The Future of War)
Grimlock (Song Of Self)
Converge (Caring and Killing)
Adamantium (From The Depths of Depression)
Ian McKaye, + Minor Threat + Fugazi (all)
Refused (The Shape of Punk To Come)
At The Drive In (Relationship of Command)
Theatre Of Tragedy (Velvet Darkness They Fear)
H.I.M (all)
Jodeci (all)
Boyz 2 Men (all)
Stevie Wonder (all)
Allahyarham Tan Sri P.Ramlee
Allahyarham Sudirman Hj Arshad
Aishah, Paul Moss and the Fan Club
Sheila Majid
Innuendo
Associazione Calcio Milan (Zachreen’s)
Manchester United (Zahiri’s)
Movies that inspire us:
Wicker Park
24 Hour Party People
Eternal Sunshines O.T.S. Mind
The Dreamers
Crazy/Beautiful
Heights
Tangled
Trainspotting
The Spinal Tap
Singles
Chasing Amy
Match Point
The Invisibles
The Last Kiss
Laurel Canyon
Closer
Before Sunset
Go
Meet Joe Black
Abandon
Rules Of An Attraction
Reality Bites
Sex & Breakfast
Once
A Walk To Remember
Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Law, Order & Obey
Goodfellas
Lucky Number Slevin
Lord Of War
The People Vs Larry Flynt
Across The Universe
Sounds Like
Melodic ’Dreamy Art Rock’ with saccharine vocal harmonies.
Track Listing:
1. Turn Back Reverse Return
2. Wounded
3. Quote Me Sonnet
4. Tingles & Everything
5. Hideaway
6. Missing Pieces
7. Alone In Istanbul
also, OUT NOW!!
HALF DREAMING ( Asian Shoegaze Compilation )
Track Listing:
1. The Majestic High – see her fall [Korea]
2. Burrrn – Song Without Words [Japan]
3. Perfect Angel – Wataclysmic [Indonesia]
4. Hideka – Echoes [Japan]
5. Elemental Gaze – Unperfect Sky (ft. sigit tigapagi) [Indonesia]
6. Monocism – Seisou [Japan]
7. Daixiaole – satellite boy [China]
8. Oeil – Strawberry Cream [Japan] 9. Witherspoon – Tingles and Everything [Malaysia]
10. The Evening Primrose – stargazer [Hongkong]
11. Caucus – sing(half dreaming) [Japan]
12. Candyaudioline – felt so fine [philippines]
13. Sharesprings – fix your eyes on [Indonesia]
14. Nanocycle – great little ones [Japan]
15. Everybody loves irene – love is so strange [Indonesia]
16. Cryv – april and you, march and i [Japan]
Distributors: Art Union(Japan), Darla(USA), CTD(USA), Tonevendor(USA)
Record Stores: Amazon(Japan), Amazon(USA), Tower Records(Japan), HMV(Japan), Norman..
Release Date: July 16, 2008(Japan)
August 12, 2008(Worldwide)
Label : QUINCE RECORDS (JAPAN)
For More Information:
www. quince-records. com
www. myspace. com/quincerecords
E-mail Adress:
info@quince-records.com
About The Band..
The band started wayyyy back in 1997 when the lead vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Zachreen Zakariah was at the tender age of 16 and Aizat Zawawi were just 15 years old impressionable kids playing cover tunes of all bands that they were listening while they were growing up. (bands like Collective Soul, Bush, Everclear, Smashing Pumpkins, Silverchair plus identifying themselves with the Grunge movement in Seattle, Washington,..the Swedish indie/hardcore scene in Umea, Sweden and the Britpop revolution in the UK at the time..
From being a band of playing alternative/indie cover tunes both of them discover hardcore/punk rock and quickly insert themselves in the Hardcore/Punk scene in Perak underground scene and quickly they formed “Scorched Earth Policy” which was a emocore quintet that thrived between 1997-1999..
The band was finally disband in 1999 after both of them went and continue their studies at local universities and went on to formed and featured in numerous local acts like Undead, Tabaraka, Forget Me Not, MaybeOneDay a.k.a Awaken plus a bunch of others as well..
Fate finally brought back both of them together and Zachreen slowly develop his songwriting skills and without knowing Witherspoon was formed. They both quickly obtained the service of their close friends (Shazril who was Zachreen’s best friend on 2nd guitar & Zahiri who was Aizat college roommate back in Perlis).Soon after that Shazril left the band due to work commitment and Azim Hulaimi who Zachreen met earlier when he was a sessionist in Tmn Tun’s scremo darlings, Forget Me Not agree to fill in Shazril shoes, but no as a guitarist but rather on synthesizer & piano which takes the band into a whole new musical direction and different dynamic..
After nearly 2 years of struggle of keeping the band together and finishing the recording session on their debut EP..Witherspoon finally release “Scapes & Sounds” which is an E.P containing 7 songs produced by Bakry (Meet Uncle Hussain, ROB, Koffin Kanser) and with Zachreen’s eccentric visions & the band’s distinctive musical direction, Scapes & Sounds was release to flying colours review from several magazines like Junk, ROTTW who named them as to be the next big thing because of the distinct quality of their sound & also their songwritting skills/musical direction which sets Witherspoon apart from any other local acts here in Malaysia.
Their first single, “Tingles & Everything” quickly gain attention from overseas labels and listeners and was included in Quince Records (one of Japan’s respected Indie label) Asian Shoegaze Compilation representing the only band from Malaysia in that compilation together with a host of Indonesia. Japan. Korea plus other Asian countries as well..also “Tingles & Everything have been offered to an airplay on Manchester’s Bing Satellites radio residing in Manchester, UK.
Witherspoon are best known form leaving quite an mind blowing impression with their combination of dream pop, post rock, 90’s alternative sounding plus killer harmonies on stage together Zachreen’s angelic voice on stage dazzling people who’d craved for something different in bands within these days..
The band is currently in the studio recording their 2nd released and just sign under First Stance Records and this release should be out in stores somewhere September 2009.
Testimonials: - To a certain extent, that 90's alternative sound is there, but added to the template are nods towards dream-pop, shoegaze & a little bit of post rock. Well played, well produced, well written, hipsters and musos will love this!' - JUNK MAGAZINE!
- Sejujurnya, ini adalah risilan yang baik, idea dan garapan lagu yang agak jarang dimainkan oleh band band baru sekarang..4 daripada 5 Bintang! - ROTTW Magazine!
- This is a brilliant release by Malaysian indie-shoegaze-post-rock band, you’ll listen to guitar layers and soundscapes that inspired by MBV’s, you’ll found emotional and aggresives distortion like My Vitriol and subtle hook that coming from Slint or Mogwai. And surely sure it wouldn’t bring you summer sunshine, but an imploding depression. As long as they keep in progress and polished their talents, I think Witherspoon can be a real great band with strong characters. - DeathRockStar Online (Indonesia)
This a video is put out by a fan..and definitely not by us but we think its an awesome appreaciation & we deeply grateful & touched by it..& having said this, it would be off the hook if we could share it with you guys out there..
* For those who are interested in purchasing our 'Extended Play', Scapes & Sounds, u can purchased it via these following shops (for now - will be constantly updated):
Record Stores: -Acoustic Music Station - Pertama Complex, KL (tel: 03-2694 4260) -Auntie's Store (Kedai Auntie) - Campbell Complex, KL (tel: 03-2691 7679)
Practise Studio: - System Exclusive (Telebury's Studio) - SS19, Subang Jaya. (tel: 03-5637 2629) - Bakry Music Workshop – Tmn Sri Rampai, Kuala Lumpur. (tel: 019-207 8815) - BlackBrownBlues Music Studio - Desa Sri Hartamas, KL (tel: 03-2300 1454)
Gig Venues - Giggers Art Cafe, Jalan Klang Lama (tel: contact Mika at 016 - 265 0379)
Indonesia (Bandung) Distro Screamous, Jln Trunojoyo No. 23 Bandung, Indonesia (contact Suzanne at: 0858 6195 1937)
The CD is retailed at RM15 per unit. So what are u guys waiting for..come and get em' now..
**If there's desired curiousity, event bookings, love letters or just for the sake of just plain friendship, u can always 'PM' us here in Myspace or send it via e-mail at:
witherspoonmail@yahoo.com
Also, u can contact these following individuals for CD purchasing or just more details & info about us.
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