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London quartet, PIANO WIRE announce their debut album Dream Underground via their own Hanging Houses label. To celebrate the occasion, heres Cherry Coma, a relentless hybrid, fusing rocknroll, pop sensibilities and their distinctive lopsided song-writing. Its another tale from the darkside, a place all too familiar to the band: The hallucinations of a dark, neurotic sycophant lost and lonely in his addled obsession. The video is directed by their visual collaborator, Steve Gullick, filmed within the fruity confines of Londons notorious Flying Dutchman.
Formerly of Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Sym Gharial and Andy Huxley split the duties thusly Sym on bass and crafting those unique lyrics; Andy singing, writing the music and playing guitar. Their 2015 EP, The Genius Of The Crowd set out the bands stall, discharging 8 blistering pop songs in 20 minutes.
Dream Underground shows a giant leap forward in song-writing and approach, realising their aim to make a huge and satisfying rock album that could rattle the ribcages and fuel the imaginations of as many people as possible. It begins in style with the Gil Norton-produced Get A Life, a riff-fuelled punch in the gut, which serves as a delicious warning of what is to follow. Its a down and dirty juxtaposition of dark and light, grit and sweetness, grinding riffs and explosive melody a theme that continues throughout the record. The idea of hedonism and its consequences is often at the heart of their songs. Sym and Andys experiences have provided a lifetimes worth of inspiration, powering the weirdly wonderful tales of the Dream Underground and beautifully realised in Jude Wainwright original oil paintings, commissioned for Loose Collective.
The literary influence is strong in Piano Wires approach. Lyricist Sym draws succour from the likes of Oscar Wilde and Chuck Bukowski and the parallels can be seen in a number of places across Dream Underground I thought I found romance in drinking and hard drugs but realised I had been fooled and was fooling everyone, he says. I like Oscar Wilde a lot. The lyrics to the tracks are about fucked up, twisted love and being a loner and going mad. The tragedy of old fashioned Romance. Wanting what you cant have. Feeling detested. And Fear. Strong experiences. Despite the darkness that undercuts many of their tracks, Piano Wires exuberant aesthetic is uncontrollable on the records monstrous peaks and choruses.
A blend of QOTSA swagger and piercing post-punk The Line of Best Fit
Theyre pop, but theyre also weird, which is the best kind of pop The Quietus
A sharp edged prowler of obsession and shivering illogic MOJO
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