The Brackish are an instrumental four-piece band from Bristol. With a traditional classic rock line-up of two guitars, drums and bass, they use their musical skills to produce a mix of psychedelia, krautrock and alternative-rock and punk enveloped in a post-rock feel.

The twin guitars have idiosyncratic voices as they weave and comment around some singular melodic ideas. They have a great sense of dynamics and tempo changes, as they make a limited pallet of sounds seem endlessly inventive.

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AZORES

Azores is a Leeds trio made up of members of Galaxians, Beards and Castrato Attack Group. They occupy a unique space somewhere between afrobeat, avant-rock and post-punk, with influences ranging from No Wave acts Liquid Liquid, James Chance, and The Dance, to 1990s Chicago bands Heroic Doses and Golden, and Afrobeat artists such as Ebo Taylor, Victor Uwaifo and Fela Kuti. Their songs combine playful Soukous / Bikutsi-influenced guitar melodies with a driving momentum and criss-crossing polyrhythmic undercurrents. Now with added voice and a set of mostly new material, the band is looking ahead to recording their second album in 2018.

LINK: http://azores1.bandcamp.com

PRESS

"Azores mix the funkier elements of post-punk and align them with the joyous, life-affirming rhythms Fela Kuti and you’ll start to understand where this Leeds trio fit in. Matthew Dixon’s distinctive guitar sound and the bands hypnotic grooves suggest an appreciation and love for desert blues and African funk alongside the likes of Talking Heads. This is music for sweaty summer nights that dares you to put your best foot forward and dance" SOUNDLAB

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