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"proper indie, like indie used to be" - artrocker

About Me



"two voices climbing over each other like some perverted romance and - despite influences - a sound like nothing else around" - artrocker

"love the songs!" - lol tolhurst

"if the band manage to convey this sort of performance onto a recording, the result will be a very special record" - iShotTheDeputy

"total class" - london lite

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/30/2005
Band Website: yes
Influences: sonic youth, my bloody valentine, pixies, the breeders, joy division, new order, the cure, pj harvey, dinosaur jr, the beatles, nirvana, velvet underground, mazzy star, siouxsie and the banshees, the smiths, bardo pond, wire, spacemen 3, loop, ride, the jesus and mary chain, pavement, the fall, mercury rev, band of susans, leonard cohen, yeah yeah yeahs, the stone roses, the jam, the kinks, cocteau twins, seefeel, stereolab, spiritualized, tindersticks, the dandy warhols, human league, elastica, suede, sebadoh, third eye foundation, blonde redhead, modest mouse, the donnas, donna sadler, yeah yeah yeahs, elliott smith, seam, spraydog, yo la tengo, palace brothers, the stooges, the byrds, bauhaus, lush, fugazi, rites of spring, talking heads, blondie, the aphex twin, low, swervedriver, tom waits, echo and the bunnymen, bootsy collins, mice parade, the only ones, bill evans, clinic, swans, the cult, nico, steve reich, prince, beck, the make-up, brontosaurus chorus, red house painters, chapterhouse, slowdive, hildegard of bingen, ornette coleman, miles davis, arvo part, catullus, early pink floyd, the edge, jg ballard, david lynch, max ernst, man ray, lol tolhurst, kim gordon in 1991: the year punk broke, steve albini’s guitar strap, pretentious name-dropping, toni & guy, guns n’ roses, metal spelt r.a.w.k, jimi hendrix & kurt cobain & all the dead rock stars, and most importantly john peel.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

we heart silver rocket

A quick note to say that not only is there a newly-recorded track, Pretending, on the player above - but an extended feedback-heavy version of this should also be appearing on Silver Rocket's set-to-b...
Posted by Swimsuit Issue on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:35:00 PST