ISLET
with support from
H.HAWKLINE
MARS TO STAY
Thurs 31st May 2012
Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
7.30pm / 14+ show
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| Spillers Records |
ISLET
Debut album 'Illuminated People' released on Shape Records (Turnstile) and is out now!
Video for 'A Bear On His Own' now available - http://www.youtube.com/v/7Fi76ldbBSY
"Illuminated People overflows with ideas and adventurism" Q
"they're a model of how a left leaning rock band ought to conduct themselves in 2012" NME
"’Iluminated People' is a shining triumph" Clash
"beautifully beguiling" The Fly
Islet released their debut album via Shape Records (Turnstile) on the 23rd January and have gained much positive feedback and reviews. Illuminated People follows 2010’s rapturously received pair of EPs – ‘Celebrate This Place’ and ‘Wimmy’ – which the NME described as being “a sonic boom in the face to anyone who might have thought they had something to hide”. A group who work under a strict autonomy, this is – as a result – their most cohesive sounding work to date.
It’s an album forged out of the Cardiff-based collective’s strong ties to a DIY sense of thinking and more outré passions in the arts. The subsequent ten tracks stand as a bold opening statement from a band that have quickly proven themselves masters of finding the common thread between at-first seemingly disparate influences.
That they’ve had the confidence to do this lies on an early decision to take control of their entire aesthetic – releasing on Shape Records, an entirely independent label run by the group's Mark Thomas. Islet have always sought to maintain direct contact with people in a less oppressive manner than the constant internet bombardment others pursue.
www.isletislet.com // www.turnstilemusic.net
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