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The Customers

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The Customers have been working together in various constellations since 1996. Will met Gregg over a cigarette on a sun-soaked Devon day while in a neighbouring village Gabriel and Joseph began playing together under the same southern skies. Some years later with Gregg as a remote, travelling lyricist and with a move to Brighton Joseph, Gabriel and Will became The Customers.

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Member Since: 5/27/2005
Band Website: thecustomers.co.uk
Band Members: Gabriel on bass/vocals Will on guitar/vocals Joe on drums
Influences: "The Customers somehow retain a peculiarly British restraint which enables them to just about avoid any unfortunate over-indulgences. It’s this talent that marks them out from the rest of the overwrought crowd. In truth, The Customers would probably sit uncomfortably in a genre which at times seems to pride itself on a lack of originality or invention. They exhibit enough nous and imagination to ensure that they’re destined to escape any musical straitjackets they may ultimately find themselves forced into" speakerspushtheair.com
Sounds Like: UNPEELED.CO.UK - We like this band and we like the latest offerings from their messily productive rock-pop palette. "Black Water" being a weirdly compelling thing that combines a shambolic Beck with a hybrid Ray Davies and Steve Marriot to batter an altogether too together Blur into a Camden collapse, but… "Every Time I Hear Your Name" is the killer, it shimmers, strolls, spangles and glides so effortlessly into it’s graceful balladeering style, "I got my pound of flesh" indeed. The Customers are genuinely excellent and I can think of a dozen 'name' and a gross of 'buzz' bands who might be slaughtered at their feet to clear a way for this lovely stuff. THESTEREOEFFECT.COM - The Customers have the vocal lilt of a particularly jaded Stephen Malkmus, but that’s where the Pavement wires are cut. The rest of the song is a storm of indie riffery that travels from the dark recesses of "bedroom music" to a distorted guitar fest of feeble noise and absolutely entertaining guitar solos that sound like a strangled violin SOUNDSXP.COM 'Black Water' escalates into crashing waves of squealing electronics and loopy feedback that are expertly kept in step by short, sharp riffs.If ‘Every Time I Hear Your Name’ sounds like the title of your usual heartstring-yanking that’s because it is; Mogwai-esque guitars come across like a de-tuned string section and the melody sounds like it’s been penned just to be howled drunkenly up at slammed windows.
Record Label: Shady Lane
Type of Label: Indie