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Live Review (Oct 1, King Tuts, Glasgow, Scotland)
The pair deftly meld laptop effects to a rock template, the band brimming with ideas but never at the expense of the songs (****)
- Andrew Borwick, The List
Live Review (Aug 1 2006, Henrys Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, Scotland)
For a band with little or no hype about them, it is truly special to hear them at this early stage in their career; the potential is frightening with songs like ‘Star Chamber’ and ‘Drawing Maps from Memory’ showcasing their talent and obvious knowledge of music. From The Beach Boys to Jeff Wayne’s ‘War of the Worlds’ to Radiohead to The Beta Band, they are a music enthusiast’s wet dream who have more ideas in a half hour set than some bands could come up with in an entire career. For two guys they have a mighty sound, albeit with the aid of a laptop, and really take some of their songs to sonic heights, all the while managing to sound experimental while retaining the basis of song and a melody. If ever the phrase “Ones to watch†applied, it is stamped all over these guys (****)
- John Paul Mason, Is This Music?
Review of the Star Chamber EP
"Top value-for-money EP with more depth and ideas on it than many an album twice its 20 minutes. The Edinburgh duo make electronic music, but with organic overtones - funky sax on 'Audiorhythmic', walls of guitars on 'Drawing Maps [From Memory]' and the title track, but it's the opening tune here which makes this record - washes of pastoral noise on 'Hollywood Has Ended', a blissed-out Beta Band outtake which without warning dives headlong into a dance-crazy Krautrock-inspired wall of sound. One moment they're the Beach Boys, the next Grandaddy, the next in a wee world of their own where they've just received a sampler and a computer and have been given half-an-hour to get all their ideas on tape. You get the feeling they have plenty more in store." (4 stars) - Is This Music?, Summer 2006
PLEASE NOTE: North Atlantic Oscillation do not use any samples they have not created themselves.
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