Summer 2011 and Manchester is burning. Thousands of the city’s inhabitants are participating in the biggest outbreak of civil unrest in England for the last 30 years. Smoke bellows from overturned cars, masked figures move in force through desolated streets while sirens scream in the distance….a riot. But amidst the destruction, in an abandoned bedsit, something very different is happening. 5 Salfordians are channelling the chaos.
Suzuki // Method
Suzuki/Method are brothers and founders Adam and Glen Leishman, Michael Mathews, David Boyd and Ben Hounslow. Together they have created a sonic landscape where anything and everything coexists simultaneously and seamlessly. A place where 30 years of dance music culture collides with a wall of screaming guitars and lyrics question and lay blame in equal measure.
Drawing from a diverse palate of influences ranging from Daft Punk to The Smiths (by way of guitar lines that wouldn’t be out of place on a Parliament record) there is something selective Darwinian in their sound selections and arrangements, where in only the strongest hooks survive the final cut.
Debut single Country Cousins is a cerebral dance floor powerhouse. Swelling bass lines and cast iron drum beats draped in lush synth textures provide a pitch perfect soundtrack to vocalist Adam’s forlorn tale of youth in crisis with a touch of Andy Bell.
Recently signed to A1(M) Records, Country Cousins is the first off new debut EP ‘NATIVE’, produced by David Tolan (Delphic, New Order, Primal Scream) and Jim Spencer (The Doves, The Vaccines, 808 State) is a statement of intent, a rallying cry from a cliché-breaking band destined to mark their mark in 2013.
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