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The Dying Seconds

About Me


To some people Electronic music is impersonal. It’s just an orgy of numbers, dancing together and doing as they’re told. But have you ever wondered what would happen if you took apart the machine and tried to replace the mother-board with a human heart?
Recording together as The Dying Seconds since early 2007, David Cantan and Jack Quilligan have recently been bolstered by the arrival of brothers Mark and Stephen Rooney and the other-worldly Naomi Moriarty. Together they produce the sort of warm electronic grooves that would have Kraftwerk calling an emergency team meeting in their space station. Drawing influence from a long line in sonic pioneering, Orbital to Aphex twin, via Radiohead and Death Cab for Cutie, The Dying Seconds have their fingers on a lot of mechanical pulses. Previously in indie gang Vemorana, the group took stock of their lot and turned to the cold landscape that is electronic music and began to slash liberally at the scene with an arsenal of assorted instruments: Piano, Trumpet, Violin, Melodica, Mandolin, Guitar and Tunisian Bagpipes to name but a few.
The result is a masterpiece of fusion. You get the raw noise of honest and lyrical rock and roll, and the unforgiving and intense virtual world of beats and bleeps. Think Dntel and Boards of Canada, sharing an afternoon tryst in some pay by the hour motel with Do Make Say Think and Elbow. It might sound sleazy, but it's not. Well, only if it actually happened.
After releasing an album (for free) which has illuminated the Blogosphere and finding time to please fans of the piano man himself in their live shows, the band are currently gearing up for the release of a new EP recorded in the electro hotbed that is Co. Wexford. The Dying Seconds are one for the future. Handy, as it sounds like they're actually from there.
Oh, and they don’t actually make weapons by the way.


A short video by Jack: .. .. ..

Electric Sheep Disturb My Sleep (Acoustic)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/20/2007
Band Website: www.wemakeweapons.com
Band Members: David Cantan - Vocals, Synths, Guitar, Drums.

Naomi Moriarty - Vocals, Synths, Melodica.

Jack Quilligan - Piano, Synths, Trumpet, Violin.

Mark Rooney - Synths, Guitar, Harmonophone, Drums

Stephen Rooney - Bass, Synths, Clarinet.
Sounds Like: Download our music free from www.WeMakeWeapons.com

The Debut Album:

"The Dying Seconds is magic. True magic." The lemur Blog

"laptop fuzz pop with character" Butter Team

"I have fallen in love with the off the wall layered rich sound" Rock Sellout

"As albums go [The Dying Seconds] is up there with the best of 2008." Mp3Hugger

Seconds EP:

"Orbital like genius" Mp3Hugger
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

EP Launch

Another song from the new EP on our page now. We'll be playing Upstairs in Whelan's on the 16th of June for the Launch of "Some Grand Romantic Gesture".
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 03:32:00 GMT

Some Grand Romantic Gesture

2 Songs from our new EP now up on our page.DC
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:43:00 GMT

Twitter

We're on twitter now. Although, to be honest, I don't really get it. Feels a bit like Newthought. The ultimate in contricity:www.twitter.com/thedyingseconds
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:53:00 GMT

"The Dying Seconds" Lyrics

I'll Make The Best Weapon It's all about balance,In the middle of thisrecklessness, we are calm,and even tempered,But not just for the sake of itI sworeand as we stumbled through the door,you couldn't...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:43:00 GMT

Death Via Satellite

We're playing Death Via Satellite in Eamonn Doran's this Friday 6th of March. Should be on stage about 9.20pm: It'll be the first of a number of gigs we'll be playing over the next couple of months in...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:16:00 GMT

DySec Industries

Hello all,Just to let you know, from now on all our remixes and megamixes will be uploaded to the DySec Industries page:www.myspace.com/dysecindustriesSo if you'd like to listen to them, that's where ...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:47:00 GMT

Website...

Our site is now up and running at:www.wemakeweapons.comThere are a few creases to iron out but you can now download our debut album and remixes e.p. in the music page on the site. 
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:31:00 GMT

Frantics and Indiecator...

Hullo, First off a reminder that we are playing Frantics in The Bernard Shaw next Wednesday the 29th of October. We will also be dropping in on the Antics radio show this Sunday from 2-4 and picking...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:40:00 GMT

Gigs please...

We are currently looking to play some gigs as we have a new laptop based setup we really want to try out. We always try to bring a crowd and are well practiced in playing after minimal soundchecks. So...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:20:00 GMT

London Gig

I'll be playing a laptop set at 8:00pm on Saturday in The Macbeth on Hoxton St. If anyone who lives in London is about please come along. It's my first gig outside Ireland so looking forward to i...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:22:00 GMT