Bio
Out of the ashes of former Output Records electro-acoustic maverick The Boy
Lucas, comes Bristol's Leave Land For Water. Formed in their native city in the
winter of 2003, the expansive quintet release their debut eponymous EP as the
shadows begin to get shorter in September 2005, on the ever-informed Sink &
Stove Records - home to up and coming groups from both sides of the Atlantic
such as The Vibration, The Playwrights, Controller.Controller and The Organ.
Following being shortlisted in the top six groups at Dazed & Confused Magazine
Annual Creative Awards, Leave Land For Water spent much of 2004 working on and
taking what they do in the studio to the stage, playing numerous shows in and
around the UK alongside Chicago-based art-core troupe 90 Day Men (Southern),
Montreal-based group Fly Pan AM (Constellation), Leafcutter John (Planet Mu),
Adem (Domino) and Clinic (Domino) amongst others, as well as playing at
Bristol's infamous Orange Ashton Court Festival.
Their eponymous EP, whilst retaining The Boy Lucas' understated
electro-glitches, is a more full-bodied affair, tethering rhythmic post-rock
textures to dynamic, twisting song structures. From the crashing opener 'The
Cinders Spread,' full of both warm pop sensibilities and angry, swarming
guitars, to 'Olad' and 'Dead Museum' which weave washes of analogue feedback
with insistent melodies and hushed vocals, whilst 'Bonnie Banks' is all crisp
snare snaps and ragga-esque sub-bass. And if that wasn't enough, there's a King
Seven Remix of 'Dead Museum', which mutates the original track in to a dead-cert
indie dancefloor filler.
Leave Land For Water are: Lucas (vocals/guitar), Ollie (lead guitar), Tim
(keys/effects/vocals), Tom (bass) and Simon (drums/percussion).