Visitations

This quartet from Liverpool exploded into life about 9 years ago, making an instant impact with a homemade single IPC Sub Editors Dictate Our Youth and a clutch of EPs. Signing to Domino, they released their brilliant debut long player, Internal Wrangler in 2000, toured with Radiohead and appeared at Scott Walker's Meltdown. In 2002, second album, Walking with Thee earned them lavish praise in the US, where they appeared often, before recording the dense and spooky Winchester Cathedral, released in 2004. With this new opus that they are calling their 'party album', the quartet from Liverpool continues to explore it's outer-limits. But as in party, think of Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut kind of shindig and nothing less. Mixed by Gareth Jones, who worked on their critically acclaimed debut album Internal Wrangler, each track has a rare intensity to it. Singer Ade describes it as a definite progression for the band. 'We went for something direct and primitive - surreal ballads next to subhuman riffs... I think it's the most consistent thing we've done.'