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Empty Vessels

shiny jagged art-zoo noise

About Me

Empty Vessels were formed in January 2004 in London as a reaction against the factory-farmed smugness that fills the airwaves like fungus.They like: Stripped-down grooves - Art not "art" - Cartoon animals shouting at each other...They don't like: Guitar solos & long songs - Acts & gimmicks - Real men & messy eaters

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Music:

Member Since: 5/12/2006
Band Website: emptyvessels.net
Band Members: Matt (vocals, guitar) Guy (bass, vocals) Marko (drums)
Influences: ...
Sounds Like:"Empty Vessels are certainly not on any bandwagon. Uncompromising, intricate and thoroughly ruthless in concocting something unique." - Joey Sandinista, Damn Pest ************************************************************ **** "The real stars of the Parlour 9 sessions have to be London's Empty Vessels. The frontman's voice drips with a sleazy character which couldn't be flattened by any sort of recording. The freakishly good 'Monkey' is lyrically simple and is surprisingly brilliant. Blurry, reverberating guitar fizzes in and out of a bristling, controlling bass - to be topped off with a shriekish monkey-call crescendo. 'It's No Guilty Pleasure' possesses a rasping, in face Jagger/Bowie quality and feels satisfyinly over the top. The problem posed by the delicious Empty Vessels; would they sound even better with a greased turd [non lo-fi] recording? We must wait and see." - Davina Earl, Gigwise
Record Label: Lurid Grotto
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

LP REVIEWED August 07

First LP review just in... TrakMARX issue 30 (www.trakmarx.com): We've been keeping an eye on London's enigmatic Empty Vessels for some time now. The fact that we've been keeping the other eye on rece...
Posted by Empty Vessels on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:57:00 PST

LP RECORDED FEB 07

So we blew into the studio and put down everything, live and urgent.  Why not? Mixing early-mid March; it's already sounding like the best thing we've ever done.  More news to follow. x 14 M...
Posted by Empty Vessels on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:29:00 PST

new track with "Robots..." no. 16

Free CD with issue 16 of acclaimed fanzine Robots & Electronic Brains features an exclusive live track: "Exploitation Movie 2". It's fresh!  Badly-recorded!  Abrupt!  Disjointe...
Posted by Empty Vessels on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:46:00 PST

"You Know" RELEASED download/cd

..> "You Know" released September through Tunetribe with a limited cd 9th October on Planet Water compilation Once Upon Another Time: info here."Empty Vessels are possibly aliens. But fam...
Posted by Empty Vessels on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:07:00 PST

other reviews (demos/live)

A blank space.  "These guys suck!"  See below...   More reviews "Empty Vessels are nicely eccentric... in the experimental pop bracket... Minimal, edgy sounds" Liam McGrady, ...
Posted by Empty Vessels on Sun, 21 May 2006 10:13:00 PST

Parlour 9 Sessions reviews

..> Reviews for P9 Sessions Volume 1Order here: from Cargo / from Amazon / from Virgin "The real stars of the Parlour 9 sessions have to be London's Empty Vessels. The frontman's voice drips with a ...
Posted by Empty Vessels on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:41:00 PST