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The Early Years & Spectrum light up Sonic Cathedral // Thursday July 17 2008
A return to live duties sees The Early Years join Sonic Boom (performing as Spectrum 'Spacemen 3 & Other Songs') for a night of unadulterated aural bliss at the Legion in east London. A small celebration for a huge record, The Early Years new single 'Like A Suicide' is out on July 21.
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The Early Years release limited single 'Like A Suicide/The Computer Voice' // Monday July 21 2008
"Sonic Cathedral is 10! Yes, incredibly, less than two years after our first release, we are proud to announce our 10th single – by THE EARLY YEARS – which is available as a limited-edition yellow vinyl seven-inch from Monday, July 21.
We’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve put the east London-based four-piece on at Sonic Cathedral, but it must be approaching double figures; they even played twice in one night when they were ‘sound carriers’ for the legendary Damo Suzuki. The thing is, we never get tired of seeing them and frequently tell anyone who will listen that they are 'the best live band in Britain!'"
Now, however, after many months of work on what will become their second album, they’ve returned with two self-produced tracks and have managed to up the stakes even higher!"Sonic Cathedral© ; Press Release SCR010
"The band have cranked a few levers and boosted themselves into electronica hyperdrive. Electricity-comes-from-other-planets... deliciously disorientating it's kosmiche electro space-drone glitch disco and I reckon it could sound ALMIGHTY live!
AA side 'The Computer Voice' sounds like machines communicating, all flickering static and glowing wires. An intriguing aperitif to the second album."
KittenPainting© 2008
"Single of the Week **** In a timely and celebratory fashion, Sonic Cathedral release a 2-sided limited edition 7 inch single and it really does seem to celebrate all things electronic, with splashes of Nittzer Ebb, Cabaret Voltaire, David Byrne & Eno and all sorts of dark inspired synth movements. If this is endemic of the drone genre, then it isn’t a bad place to be at all!"
Manchester Music© July 2008
"East London krautrockers The Early Years release their first single in 18 months. It sounds like LCD Soundsystem fronted by Scott Walker while someone puts a guitar through a mangle... unsuprisingly Brian Eno is a huge fan!"
NME© 9:07:2008
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Thedailygrowl.blogspot.com // Tuesday, March 04, 2008
The Early Years Revisited
With all this talk about Krautrock, it seems appropriate to revisit one of the most under-rated bands of the last couple of years - The Early Years. Their self-titled debut album from 2006 was criminally ignored by almost everyone when it came to the end-of-year best ofs. The album was good, but that's not my concern here. It's actually one of the band's lesser-known tunes, tucked away on a b-side, but in my opinion their finest hour. This is where they show off their true Krautrock credentials.
More than that, the track I Heard Voices, is right up there with the greats. The Early Years are a band who know how to use their effects pedals, and they’ve manipulated their sound to perfection on this tune. The drumming is nothing short of superb and it’s this rhythmic thread that holds everything together so well. At almost 12 minutes long it may appear daunting, but never once does it outstay its welcome. In fact, given the slow measured build-up through this whole time, when they're about to end it, they’ve got themselves into such a fantastic groove that you just don’t want it to stop. I could listen to it for another 12 minutes at least.
Download: The Early Years – I Heard Voices
Here’s hoping for more Early Years goodness in 2008!
posted by The Daily Growl @ 2:21 PM
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/// RELEASES ///
Our self-titled debut album 'The Early Years' was released to strong critical acclaim on the 25th September 2006 on Beggars Banquet Records and is available on-line and in most record stores across the UK.
The album was released in the US on the 20th January 2007.
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"A brilliant album" 8/10 ROCKSOUND
"Fantastic drone-rock debut with moments of great beauty" 4/5 UNCUT
"Psychedelic swirls of noise...with tunes!" NME
"A debut album of wickedly ambitious invention that belies it's makers' tender years. Truly wonderous." 4.5/5 THE FLY
"The Twenty First Century doesn't get more challenging, interesting or better than this. Album of the week" - 4.5/5 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
"A Brilliant Debut" 4.5/5 THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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Our new EP "The Great Awakening" was released on the 19th February 2007.
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