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At their peak they combined dense, fuzz-heavy riffage with cryptic, poetic lyrics, before later introducing keyboards and moving into a sparser, more repetition-based direction. Initially, they owed a debt to The Jesus and Mary Chain - blending furious white-noise with early Pavement-style experimentation and augmenting their two guitar, bass and drums instrumentation with saxophones and violins.
Their first release was the 1992 five track Wrist Eye demo, notable also for featuring Gerard Love from Teenage Fanclub on backing vocals. The demo gained them a recording contract with the independent label Elemental Records, who released their debut single, Sweatlodge/MV, in 1993. At this time, despite their relative obscurity, they displayed an aptitude for getting on the bill at relatively high profile gigs and opened for PJ Harvey, Spacemen 3 and The Jesus Lizard, amongst others.
In 1994, the band’s debut album, Able Treasury, was released. Demonstrating a tighter sound, it was also notable for its unusual song titles.
Shortly after this release, Mark Raine replaced Roger Ward on guitar and the band began to move in a rockier, less feedback-drenched direction. This culminated in the 1997 release of the band’s masterpiece, Victory Parts and gigs with Embrace, Stereophonics, dEUS, as well as a couple of tours with Placebo. The band’s acumen and wall-of-noise approach garnered them sponsorship from Marshall amplifiers.
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Understanding Music
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Victory Parts
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Able Treasury
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Hellraiser917
underrated.!!!
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Kittie_Mew_Mew
they were almost perfect
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wendibel
ac acoustics were and will forever be a thing of wonder
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MarshallStaxx
but honestly, everything besides Able Treasury and Victory Parts is crap.
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ghostship
but honestly, everything besides Understanding Music is crap.
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bbc6music
Gideon Coe will be playing some live tracks from the AC acoustics Peel session of 1997 next Tuesday on 6Music. The show runs from 10pm-1am but you can listen again on the website up to 7 days afterwards. Here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/gideon_coe/
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ghostship
sweeeeeeet!
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sweetsweet
so underrated.
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