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Laymar’s
debut album In Strange Lines And Distances... is
avilable now on TV Records through Shellshock/Pinnacle
and at iitunes, eMusic, HMV, Napster, 7Digital &
all good digital retailers.
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26th
September 2008
Laymar @ Fat Out Till You Pass Out
Venue TBC Manchester
4th September 2008
Laymar @ The Roadhouse supporting SILVER APPLES
Newton Street Manchester
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LAYMAR
IN STRANGE LINES AND DISTANCES....
The
most thrilling thing you’ll hear for a long time
THE FLY
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
Swords is exhilarating, Swords is dark and brooding
and suffocating in an understated minimal experimental
way – Swords saved it all and just as I was thinking
about yelling about no more post rock and pass me that
Sammy Hagar album about fast sports cars and hitch-hiking
women in short red dresses.... Swords is thrilling,
Swords is one of the best pieces of instrumental atmospheric
mood music in ages, 28 Days good and beyond the cliches
of mere post rock. Throbbing brooding organic instrumental
darkness and building drama – an amazing piece
of shape shifting music and just when you think they
can’t take you any higher the brilliant drama of
the drums slowly kick in, brilliant brilliant brilliant!
Subtle mood shifting brilliance (I’d tell you it
was like the first time you heard Wish You Were Here,
I’d tell you it was that good but you’d accuse
me of going completely over the top). ...
This
is an excellent debut album from the Manchester three
piece, it took a couple of listens to really grab, the
whole album is good, there’s personality here,
an original take on instrumental post tock and yes,
you do need this album in there with your post rock
classics.
ORGAN
Brooding
drones and ambient textures from Manchester.
Even those of us who dig post -rock would have to concede
that it’s become rather formulaic, so let’s
not use that tag for Laymar’s impressive deployment
of crystalline atmospherics and dark textures. Aside
from maybe The Cocteau Twins, this album references
soundtracks rather than other bands, its future sound
of gloom aesthetic tailor made for your next trip into
the icy depths of outer space. In more rockist terms,
this could easily appeal to affectionados of Trent Reznor’s
ambient side, or perhaps devotees of post BM outfits
Ulver, but this haunting trip into the darkness stands
as as intensely individual work.KKKK
KERRANG!
The
post-rock equivalent of the best massage you've ever
had.
If Sigur Ros were born to soundtrack the desolation
of nature, Laymar were born to soundtrack the desolation
of the inner city...
Almost entirely instrumental, dark, low and with enough
of a beat to ensure they're not ambient, Laymar are
music to listen to on a midnight drive through industrial
wastelands...
The band consists of just three men: Colin Williams
on guitar, piano and synth; Ciaran Cullen on bass and
synth; and David Paul on drums and sequenced electronics
(and album artwork). Rock minimalism filtered through
Godspeed You, Black Emperor and electronic trickery,
their music is the sound of the long, long, midnight
haul on a work drive you don't want to be on, the sounds
that drift through your head as you fall asleep, leaving
your mate to drive. The slow turn of the wheel, the
drag of the tarmac, the faint memory of the town you've
just left. And it's beautiful.
MUSICOMH.COM
Post-rock
times ten.
Thundering basslines flash out of a fog of knotted guitars
and Judgment Day samplers. Yeah. This sounds a bit like
a experimental B Side collection of bits that didn’t
make it onto the T2 soundtrack for fear of actually
inducing an apocalypse right there and then. But we’re
ready for it now and pleased about it too.
SUBBACULTCHA
Pretty devastating fare
Switching seamlessly between minimalistic prettiness,
Neanderthalian noise-mongering, dubstep-hued subterranean
bass escapades and a graceful coda that glitters like
the first rays of sun after a particularly nasty storm,
‘Swords’ sounds totally unique and absolutely
spellbinding. The same can be said for most of the rest
of In Strange Lines and Distances.
GIGWISE
OTHER REVIEWS
A
tremor of bass and a synth sound that send shivers down
your neck, like the desolate New Order in that interlude
between the end of Joy Division and the dawning of their
disco age.
MANCHESTERMUSIC.COM
Tripped-out, lysergic sonic odysseys which are part
Mogwai, part (early) Verve, part Dolby Surround soundtrack
to your worst nightmare... they summon up a vertigo-inducing
wall of noise. It's music which is brimming with nerve-shredding
tension and fury, but - like Ian Curtis in triplicate
all on stage at once - it's also eerily spellbinding.
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
Like Mogwai playing a set of instrumental Joy Division
cover versions. Excellent.
ANGRY LEFT WING MOFO
A monolithic apex of spine-tingling sound to tear the
breath from your lungs and the words from your mouth.
ANGRYAPE
A
mesmeric, head crunching experience. It's brave,
experimental stuff, that takes inspiration from Mogwai's
well thumbed handbook, but creates a rather Mancunian
urban landscape (Chameleons, shades of an uber heavy
Joy Division and plenty of heavy references from the
likes of Nine Inch Nails and Tool).
MANCHESTERMUSIC.COM
http://www.myspace.com/laymarmusic
Radio promotion: kevin@rocketpr.co.uk 020 7326 1234
Press: ken@hermana.co.uk 020 7733 8009
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