Keith - Red Thread
RLS DATE: May-28-2006
STR DATE: May-29-2006
ARTiST: Keith
ALBUM: Red Thread
LABEL: Lucky Number
GENRE: Indie
SOURCE: CDDA
BiTRATE: VBR.Kbps.44.1kHz
MODE: Joint-Stereo
TRACKS: 11
LENGH: 45:45.Minutes
RELEASE iNFO
We are Keith, a four-piece originally from Essex, Ealing, Shrewsbury and Leeds
but now based in Manchester. We met at Manchester Uni whilst doing a music
production course and ended up all living in Warrington, where we spent endless
nights talking about music and jammingand so we became Keith.
We all have different musical influences and think this really comes across in
our sound. We work as a democracy with everyone contributing and making their
mark. Oli's parents are classical musicians and Mark was in a string of bands
at school. John was DJ-ing techno and house music as a teenager and Johnny
spent his childhood bashing pots and pans with wooden spoons and his family's
prized piano with a recorder before becoming a professional drummer. John is
also a graphic-art genius and we use his beautiful designs for our artwork.
We listen to all sorts of different music, such as Krautrock, jazz, Afrobeat,
deep house, soul, indie and psychedelia, and like to add these influences into
our own work. We see that having a broad sound is a good thing, rather than
just an excuse to do anythingwe like to incorporate different elements to keep
our songs unique and original. We have been lucky enough to work with James
Ford from Simian Mobile Disco, who largely produced our first EP, and already
we have remixes from the likes of Matthew Herbert, James Ford and Sound
Architecture, that we hope will get everyone dancing! It was great working with
Matthew Herbert as we have been known in the past to do a cover of his track
'The Audience' during our sets, so to have him remix one of our tunes was
amazing! We have released The Remixes on 12" although not featured on this is a
mix of 'Faces' that has been released as a special feature on the TDK Festival
CD 2005.
We've been out and about in Manchester a lot at Akoustic Anarchy and Blowout
(John still DJ's at Big Hands) and have been doing gigs with Hard-Fi, Tom Vek,
Clor, Erol Alkan, Sebastien Tellier-to name a few. We have some more live dates
around the UK and a full UK tour in May so come and see us!
Please visit www.keithonline.com and join our mailing list to keep up to date
with all our news...On our website we also have links to buy our music-the EP,
the remixes 12" and the mix cd (compilation album we made ourselves featuring
the likes of Clor, Tom Vek, Pole, Goldfrapp, !!! etc-while stocks last!)
Our new album 'Red Thread' will be out on 29th May 2006, with the single 'Back
There' out on 15th May (you can hear the single above). The tracks on the
record vary from fat, grooving tunes to subtle atmospheric songs with some more
epic stuff too. We combined new tracks with re-recorded tracks from the limited
Hold That Gun EP to comprise the album. The title came from a comment made by
an A&R man during the bands early days. He said our sound 'formed a red thread
though all the different styles of music. Theres the dance influence, the folk
influence, the indie influence' and were the 'neat red thread wrapping around
it all. Theres a world of different sounds on 'Red Thread,' whether its
Smiths-influenced pop with echoes of African hi-life on current single Back
There, meandering atmospheric balladry (Gunshot Revelry), shoe-gazing indie
(Down Below), twisted disco (Mona Lisas Child) or Eno-esque avant garde
textures on 'The Miller,' an organic jam which started from riffs on an Aztec
tongue drum. This spirit of eclecticism comes from four strong personalities
and four different musical backgrounds that makes up the bands creative hub.
Come and see us, tell your friends, watch this space! KEITH x
www.myspace.com/keiththeband
TRACK TiTLE TiME
01 Back There 03:35
02 Killing Me 03:35
03 Hold that Gun 03:53
04 Mona Lisa's Child 06:14
05 Unsold Thoughts 04:29
06 Gunshot Revelry 02:40
07 Faces 04:26
08 Leave it Now, for Now 03:41
09 You 04:51
10 The Miller 03:23
11 Down Below 04:58
TOTAL 45:45 min SiZE 67,4.Mb