Member Since: 6/19/2006
Band Website: adventuresinthekarasea.net
Band Members: Sarah Bradley; vocals, programming, guitar, violin, omnichord, percussion, ocarina, sample-gathering.
Influences: Musically: Aberfeldy, Arab Strap, Bat For Lashes, The Beloved, Bjork, Boards Of Canada, Broadcast, Cocteau Twins, Colleen, The Delgados, Doves, The Durutti Column, The Field Mice, Girls Aloud, Hood, iLiKETRAiNS, Jane Weaver, Lali Puna, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, New Order, The Notwist, Patrick Wolf, Portishead, Puressence, Slowdive, Talk Talk, Trembling Blue Stars, Ulrich Schnauss, The Wake.
Non-musically: Manchester City FC, Paul Auster, Stephen Fry, Mikhail Bulgakov, Sylvia Plath, Tom Weir, Oscar Wilde, late nights, half-price wine, pretty photographs, the Factory Records aesthetic, and the ridiculous notion of just upping sticks one day and travelling around Eastern Europe with my Holga round my neck and a good notebook.
Sounds Like: What people had to say about The Kara Sea;
"tones of the cascadingly comatose mindset of Slowdive, the shadowed mystique of Bjork, and the jadedly poignant beats of Everything But The Girl... set this girl free in a fancy studio and something stunning will come of it" - Sandman Magazine
"the elegiac, electronic Cocteau Twins stylings are too esoteric for mainstream chart success, yet so accessibly beautiful at the same time that success on her own terms is inevitable" - mysongbird.co.uk
"beautiful, evocative stuff" - They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them
"The organic sounds in your music are so very nice. We are big fans" - The Aklamate
"bleak as fuck, but not without a measure of sweetness." - My Kappa Roots
Type of Label: None