aaamusic | On 11, Jul 2011

WARM BRAINS

http://www.myspace.com/warmbrains/
http://www.warmbrains.com/

Debut Album Old Volcanoes Released on August 1st
Via Marshall Teller records

Warm Brains – Marble Arch by divisionpromotions

“This is a solo project in the truest sense, he’s wasted behind the mixing desk… Pavement-esqué, smart musicality, a concise compendium of new grunge” – Loud & Quiet Magazine

“Friggin’ awesome. Fans of noise-guitar pop need listen to the album’s title track” – NME

This is the debut album from Warm Brains, the warped of imaginings of London based DIY producer Rory Attwell. Having previously been in a spate of bands (a popular point being made in the press of his ‘ex-Test Icicle’ status but more recently having played in alt goth-punk outfit Kasms), he has concurrently become known as a prolific producer in his own right. Old Volcanoes shall be released through Marshall Teller Records on August 1st.

Under the moniker Brattwell Recordings, Atwell has provided a magic touch in the studio for numerous exciting UK bands including Male Bonding, Fair Ohs, TEETH, S.C.U.M, Veronica Falls, Cold Pumas, Holy State and countless others. Now, Rory has finally decided it was time spill his brains and to start work on pulling his own ideas together.

Work took place in Spring 2010 at the Pallet Recording Studio which is co-run by Rory and Tom Vek (who also wrote and produced his album Leisure Seizure in the studio). Subsequently 6 months was spent sneaking the odd hour or two between recording sessions and gradually pulling together an album of self-penned material using his acquired recording experience and ‘jack of all trades…’ approach to instrumentation. Atwell writes, performs and produces all of the tracks unaided, with the exception of vocal collaborations on 3 tracks from Roxanne Clifford from Veronica Falls, Gemma Fleet from Trogons and Florence Van Camerijk from Paradise.

The lead single from the album is ‘Let Down’; an upbeat track taking a very British sounding spin on something with strong hints of American Indie/Alt-Rock. The A-side is then juxtaposed with the more melancholy, stripped down track which closes the album, ‘Stone to Sand to Glass’, giving a good representation of how sonically diverse this record is.

Warm Brains debut long player, Old Volcanoes will be promoted with a string of live dates and festival performances planned with the assistance of Joe Ryan from Dalston afro-beat party punks Fair Ohs and Anna Jones from Exeter punk band Brothers. Also look out for upcoming videos from London based director Ferry Gouw and New York video artist Dan Tierney making their way over the horizon soon.

Catch Warm Brains playing the following shows!

July 9th – 1-2-3-4 Festival, Shoreditch
July 21st – The Garage, London W/ Not Cool & Novella
July 31st – The Chameleon, Nottingham W/ Let’s Wrestle
August 3rd – Album launch @ CAMP Basement W/ Fair Ohs, Cold Pumas, Colours (+ Male Bonding and Tom Vek DJs)
August 6th – Unit, Southampton