Bright Spark Destroyer
London, England, United Kingdom | SELF
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Press
8.4 " Urgent, impassioned and richly constructed it's a shimmering work.."
- Absolute Punk
8.0 " ..this is a band with more intelligence and guile than many peers but never forgetting how to write a classic tune. " - The 405
Discography
Holy Yell EP (2010)
Tracks 'The Dead Sea Scrolls' and 'The Shortest Distance' both received 6music airplay.
The 405 - (8.0) " ..this is a band with more intelligence and guile than many peers but never forgetting how to write a classic tune. "
Absolute Punk - (8.4) " Urgent, impassioned and richly constructed it's a shimmering work.."
Alt sounds - (8.9) " Holy Yell is great album status, even though it is only an EP. Their final product must be perfection."
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Bio
Bright Spark Destroyer released their debut EP Holy Yell in June 2010, the result of a six-month mobile recording project across the South East of England.
Produced by Jordan Fish (Worship), the songs reflect a shared love of exuberant records like You Forgot It In People, Emergency & I and Silent Alarm; from the anxious piano-led breakbeat of They Already Know to the jubilant guitar fanfare in A Feeling of Health.
The group took shape in late 2009 following the simultaneous deaths of previous bands, as is so often the case. Initially the band were scattered between cities, often exchanging ideas via email, but as the songs developed they gravitated towards London as a base for rehearsals and live shows.
Holy Yell is not a captured snapshot of a band in stasis, it was lovingly constructed, albeit unconventionally. A travelling studio went where the ideas were; a barn in Oxford, a flat in Kilburn, friends' living rooms - over 500 miles' driving time in all, with one of the tracks pieced together on the M4. These changing environments called for technical and musical improvisation; vocal booths were constructed from folding chairs and clothes racks, every attic was raided for old accordions, half-size cellos and rolled up keyboards were even, er, rolled out…
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