The three members - Ben, Jim and Rob - all studied music at Southampton Uni, but despite this they’ve managed to keep the music accessible to everyone. Striving to bring a fresh approach to the electronic music scene, Glow use laptops, keyboards and controllers to compliment the more traditional voice, trumpet and guitars. Everything that you hear is played live - no backing tracks!
Inventively splicing together comedown breakbeats akin to Fourtet dabbling with Aphex Twin - all delicious aching brass, glistening guitar lines that hark back to the work of Ride and hypnotic vocals that sigh and ache and reach, giving warmth to these electronic manoeuvres. Their dynamic structures even bring to mind the work of “Kid A” Radiohead without the all pervading sense of gloom. Instead, they create a hypnotic, heart melting sound that’s simultaneously life affirming and post apocalyptic, the glow on your child’s face after a screaming fit.
2008 is the year of Glow. Their first full studio album, entitled ‘I, Yeah!’ has been released to critical acclaim and extensive use of positive hyperbole. But albums and singles are always second in Ben, Jim and Rob’s hearts. Their real love lies in the live show. And what a show it is!
First, make the Apple Mac (and those shiny objects with big buttons on) produce bleepy bloopy boing-boom-tchak noises and add on a voice that’s been vocodered into oblivion, like Kraftwerk genuinely trying to petrify you. Then start plucking atmospherically at a guitar so that 65daysofstatic start to watch their backs, and add on some synth-o-rama that the recent/current ‘80s revival would pride itself in if it was having fun rather than preening itself. Then, once all that’s stretched elastically and mozzarella-style over the processed beats, get the live drums to pound in like the hands are controlling the brain and not vice-versa, and watch the crowd either throw mad shapes or bask in the wonder of it all. That’s electronica marvellousness right there. Make sure you’re freaky dancing when the revolution comes.
Locable, notable, rude_NHS is a pioneer of dead rock, guffstep and shoe rave. We're not sure what any of those are, but they definitely combine a virtuoso's musical feel (rude_NHS is a dab hand with guitar - specialist in all styles) with an impish sense of amusement and dirty, dirty drum'n'bass sensibilities.
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