Leeds, England

indie artrock band from Leeds with more instruments than you. our mums are really proud of us
virgin awful home-recorded EP done and finished, and a dazzlingly shiny single out now. catch us around leeds

Wednesday 22 April 2015

eclectic influences


ABBA, Alex Humphreys, Alex Rushfirth, Al Pacino, Alvvays, Animal Farm, Anthony Burgess, the Arcade Fire, Arthur C. Clarke, avant-garde sepiatone pornography, bad vibes, Bangkok, the battery life, Battles, The Beatles, beat literature, Beck, Berlin, Bess the dog, The Beta Band, BeyoncĂ©, Big Narstie, Blondie, blue, Blue Rinse, Blur, Bobby Gillespie, Bombay Bicycle Club, C. S. Lewis, Caribou, Carson Cox, Chic, corduroy in black, The Cure, Daft Punk, Danny Boyle, David Bowie, Death Grips, Defne Cetin, denim, Denzel Washington, DIIV, Disclosure, displacement, Django Django, duct tape, Dutch Uncles, East India Youth, Edinburgh, Egypt, El Paso, Elvis Presley, Erica, everybody named John McCarthy, Everything Everything, Factory Floor, Factory Records, Fatboy Slim, The Fat White Family, Fela Kuti, the fitness myth, Florence and the Machine, Flying Lotus, Francis Ford Coppola, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Franz Ferdinand, French Soul Party, Frida Kahlo, George Harrison, George Orwell, Giorgio Moroder, Goat, Gorillaz, green, HAIM,  Hanna-Barbera, Ho Chi Minh, Holst, Hookworms, the Human League, imp, Interpol, the Iron Man, Irvine Welsh, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Jack White, Jai Paul, jaguars, James Brown, Jamiroquai, Jarvis Cocker, Jaws, The Jesus and Mary Chain, John Kennedy, John Lennon, John Travolta, Jonas Jonasson, Joseph Heller, Joy Division, Juarez, Jungle, Kanye West, Kate Bush, Kendrick Lamar, keyboards, Kraftwerk, La Roux, LCD Soundsystem, leather, Leon Trotsky, Lewis Carroll, Lou Reed, Mac Demarco, Madchester, Madonna, Makeout Videotape, Marijuana Deathsquads, Mario Puzo, Mark Ronson and the Business Intl., Marlon Brando, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Menace Beach, Merrill Garbus, MGMT, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Milk Teeth and Green Tea, Moog, Moon King, Muhammad Ali, My Bloody Valentine, the city of Marseille, Maxwell Edison, Meg White, Merchandise, Metronomy, Mother Teresa, Mudride, New Order off-cuts, Nineteen Eighty Four, Nirvana, noise, the North Sea, the Norweigan underground art-gauche synthpop movement, Odd Future, orange, OutKast, the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, Passion Pit, Patrick Ness, Peter Saville, Philip Pullman, phones, Picasso, pink, The Pixies, Polica, Pond, Primal Scream, Public Enemy, Pulp, Pulp Fiction, purple, Putin’s Russia, Queens of the Stone Age, Quentin Tarantino, Radiohead, red, The Rolling Stones, Run For The 33, the sad sad rot to the grave, Salvador Dali, San Francisco, Savages, Scab Boys, Seas-Of-Green, the Secret Cult, Simonetta Stefanelli, Sky Ferriera, small-town escapism, The Smiths, the Sochi Winter Olympics, Sonic Youth, Soulwax, space, Splashh, Stanley Kubrick, St. Vincent, Stevie Wonder, Suicide (the band, we aren't that morbid), summer, Supermarionation, Sylvan Esso, Tame Impala, Taylor Swift, teal, Ted Hughes, thai brides, third-person drug experiences, Thom Yorke, Todd Terje, Trainspotting, The Truman Show, tUnE-yArDs, Tupac, The Undertones, underwater, The Vaccines, vintage Peace, Vladimir Lenin, Warpaint, The Wasp Factory, The White Stripes, Wild Beasts, The xx, yellow.


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