Laymar

Music:

Member Since: 9/10/2005
Band Website: laymar.com
Band Members: Colin Williams (Guitars/synth/keyboard), Ciaran Cullen (bass guitar, synth), David Paul (drums/sequenced electronics). All tracks and instrumentals written by the band.
Influences: "....I have changed constantly all my life, usually at top speed, and it has always been with the total, permenant finality of a thing fed in to the atom smasher. My soul and my body chemistry are like that of a chameleon, a lizard with no pulse.... People praise me for this, but they are all foreigners and they know nothing. When I go to Mexico or Germany they call me "Lizard Man," and i laugh smugly...."To get along, go along." Thats what i say. H.S.T. Woody Creek 1990LIVE REVIEW - GIGWISE "The perfect sound track for an alien abduction" - " Gorgeous Eno-esque keyboard minimalism" GLASSWERK "something intellectual and educational" - " it is refreshing to hear something that doesnt really sound like anything else " MANCHESTER MUSIC "Its a learning experience for the listener, but well worth subscribing to, as Laymar may actually be just one step ahead of the game" UNPEELED MAGAZINE "this band are chin-strokingly interesting and occasionally violent on the guitar front".THE FUGITIVE MOTEL The live reputation that surrounds Laymar is unrivalled in the local area. Their dark soundscapes and menacing samples have built up an extremely vocal fanbase, and the Motel makes the trip out tonight on the strength of previous atmospheric performances. It’s hard to describe Laymar without saying that they communicate a disturbing vision of the apocalypse, but rest assured that while the noises they make may well be a little unnerving, they are nothing short of excellent.Dark, wheeling synths spin in and out of brooding electronica and post-post-post-rock guitars, and during several particularly resonant moments of bowel-moving bass, the sound of a washing machine on ‘spin’ appears. Never breaking to allow applause, the forward-thinking experimentalism showcased makes all sense of time seem irrelevant, but the impulse to gently sway to the rolling, guttural power-melodies proves impossible to resist.This band don’t play their instruments. The instruments play them, with bassist Ciaran dipping into the drumkit and sliding his fretboard across a flight case with eyes closed and the look of a possessed man. Never mind any of those twee keyboard tinklings in Close Encounters, Laymar make the kind of music to welcome alien life to.GIGWISE Imagine taunting and berating Sigur Ros till the frustration and hostility of Masssive Attack emerged from their delicate soundscapes and you’re someway to making sense of Laymar.MANCHESTERMUSIC.CO.UK “Manchester's finest purveyors of intense post-rock....this is something truly magnificent and beautiful and towering almost beyond description...”GIGWISE “Imagine taunting and berating Sigur Ros till the frustration and hostility of Masssive Attack emerged from their delicate soundscapes and you’re someway to making sense of Laymar...”ANGRY APE “a meticulous construction of layered synths over streaming guitars, punctuated by glorious programmed beats and ear splitting cymbals erupts in a monolithic apex of spine-tingling sound to tear the breath from your lungs and the words from your mouth...”
Record Label: TV Records
Type of Label: Indie