Member Since: 9/10/2006
Band Website: grammatics.co.uk
Band Members: Owen Brinley - Squeal, Jangle, Noise Box, Nana's Keyboard////
Dominic Ord - Big Tangerine Barrels////
Rory O'Hara - Grime Bass, Mutter////
Emilia Ergin - Cut-Throat Cello, Murmur////
This is the new video for 'New Franchise'. Directed by Matt Maude and produced by Left Eye Blind Productions (www.lefteyeblind.net).
Producer: Jamie Donoughue
DOP: Adam Conlon .
1st AD: Aurora Fearnley . SFX: Joe Costello
New Franchise
D.I.L.E.M.M.A
Influences: Cursive, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Blur, The Dears, Low, Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Six By Seven, Craig Clevenger, Queens Of The Stone Age, Bowie, Arcade Fire, Suede, The Icarus Line, Hot Chip, Irvine Welsh, The English language, Idlewild, Les Guy Debords, The Veils, Douglas Coupland, Les Emites, The Give a Fucks, Bjork, Whale Hunt, Seminals, Kate Bush, Bat For Lashes
Sounds Like: Complicated pop music. Drunken macabre gypsy cabaret. Beautiful dissonance. Car-sickness. Arthritic fingers. Rheumatics. RSI. Post-Pop. Meanwood Road at night.
"Ambitious musical shape-shifters, Grammatics are a revelation." - NME
"Over-the-top strop pop... these kids are geniuses [sic]" - Artrocker
"Some of the most epic, intelligent pop music produced by a British band in an awfully long time. Pretty fucking special." - Drowned In Sound
"Wonderful... sit-up-and-listen strange and at once arresting" - The Sunday Times
"Spellbinding" - The Fly
"One of the country's best bands...If they keep this up, they won't be the new whoever, by the end of the year everyone will be the new them." - Maps Magazine
"Super dramatic guitar/bass/drums/cello/organ combo packin' the sorta songs Ian McCulloch can't write anymore and the sorta experimental wall-of-white-noise atmospherics Kevin Shields bankrupted Creation Records trying to perfect"
- Talk Magazine
DISCOGRAPHY
'Verity & Reverie'
on CD (Japan only)
KLEP4
'Shadow Committee'
on limited 7"/download
DTTR038
'D.I.L.E.M.M.A. / Polar Swelling'
on limited 10"/download
DTTR041
'New Franchise'
free download - www.grammatics.co.uk
DTTR042
'Something I Learned Today'
on CD/iTunes (compilation)
DTTR028
'Out Of The Woods And Trees'
on CD/iTunes (compilation)
DTTR035
'On The Bone - Number Two'
on CD/iTunes (compilation)
OTB009
Record Label: Dance To The Radio
Type of Label: Indie