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The Agonal Trace

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As we career headlong towards the last days of humanity The Agonal Trace can be found stood back composing the soundtrack. Ours are songs of heroic love and tragic heartbreak, life and death set against a desolate backdrop, songs not of surrender but of defiance and grace in a brutal world. There is beauty and most importantly humanity running through our music, through the bleakness, and the desperation. We are the sound of mankind coming to terms with ourselves. Discovering the myriad paradoxes that haunt our existence and clambering to make sense of it all.

Sometimes we make pop music; sometimes we make challenging, unsettling music but no matter what, our aim is always to make great music. We aim to make music that will change lives, which will remain important for years to come and be heard and loved by as many people as possible. We are driven by a passion for what we do; this is not a choice for us but a compulsion and we have an absolute belief in it.

To describe the music of The Agonal Trace is not an easy task, you are best off listening for yourself. Our music is highly varied and dynamic yet has common elements which make it distinctively ours.

Here is a list of some influences, which may or may not help point you in the right direction: The Velvet Underground, Nick Cave, The Verve, Tom Waits, Primal Scream, Spiritualized, Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen, Edgar Allen Poe, J.G. Ballard, The Flaming Lips, David Lynch, My Bloody Valentine, Edward Hopper, David Bowie and many more.

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Music:

Member Since: 10/20/2005
Band Members: - Tom Rose : vocals, guitar

- Ped Hunter : guitar, keyboards, backing vocals

- Dan Godfrey : bass

- Toby Rose : violin, keyboards

- Neil Haynes : drums


Influences: Spiritualized, Nick Cave, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emporer, Dirty Three, Sigur Ros, David Bowie, Flaming Lips, Verve, Joy Division, The Beach Boys, Leonard Cohen, Jesus and Mary Chain, Radiohead, Mono, Tom Waits, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Explosions In The Sky, My Bloody Valentine...and many others..
Sounds Like: Mini-album available to buy now!!

Tracklisting:

1. The Heart Of Darkness

2. Straw Dogs

3. Smiling Now

4. The First Time I Spoke To Jesus

5. X-Ray Eyes

6. Lying In The Flood

7. Panic Room

You can get them in Sonic Boom Records, and Sawyers in Kettering. Or come see us at one of our gigs and take one home with you.


Record Label: Fuzz Pop Records
Type of Label: Indie