O FRACAS

Music:

Member Since: 5/4/2005
Band Website: Hello
Band Members: Ben (Vocals, Guitar) Alex (Guitar, vocals) Jim (Drums, Piano) Matt (Bass, Vocals) Ben 2, (Keys, Shake, rattle and roll)
Influences: These are some of our inspirations and influences in no order of importance; Art Blakey - The Beatles - Beck - Blur - Dave Brubeck Quartet - David Bowie - Deerhoof - Billy Cobham - E.L.O - Faraquet - Fela Kuti and the Africa 70 - Fugazi - Gilbert and George - The Kinks - Led Zeppelin - Ramsey Lewis - Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Mars Volta - John Martyn - Pink Floyd - Q and Not U - Radiohead - Steely Dan - Talking Heads - Tom Waits - Yes
Sounds Like: Guardian Unlimited "If Factfinding and And So A Scratch Runs Down A Wall are any measure, Fits & Starts will be the first great album of 2008."

Drowned in Sound 8/10 "even on first listen Fits & Starts is given an instant air of familiarity... helped along by an almost deceptive amount of depth... impresses as a debut" Loud & Quiet 9/10 “Spontaneously eclectic, it brims with ingenuity and agitated momentum that’s giddily infectious. A restless success.”Huw Stephens BBCR1 Introducing... Album of the WeekNME the sort of idiosynchratic, off-kilter us Brits should make more of... engaging album of post punk, nutty folk and avant-garde rock."Plan B 'You Can Hear The World From Menwith Hill' and the acoustic pop of '16 Beats' are stunning and indicate future greatness. New Noise O Fracas might be a british indie-rock group who contain as much substance as style in their delightfully whimsical genre mash up."Gigwise “We can now add O Fracas to the list of brave new bands”Manchester Music 4/5 "Refreshingly different and ostensibly raw."Subba-Cultcha 4/5 "A very interesting band... could just be one of the biggest things on earth come 2009..."Leeds Guide “If you thought indie bands had lost the ability to surprise, think again”"The single (Zeroes And Ones/What Jim Hears) is of course better than a thousand high fives - agit art pop that could only fail to make your body shake if your soul is made of lead and far too heavy to make itup to the great CBGBs in the sky." - ARTROCKER

"Shockingly good, and they know it." - OLIVER GOODYEAR, GIGWISE.COM