1 post tagged “51 breaks”
I'll be sure to celebrate this evening. :-)
It's great to see a steady stream of submissions coming in and the contributions made by the artists. There's still plenty more developments to be made here and from the feedback we're getting from the community I'm getting excited to see what this looks like by the 3000 mark.
Anyway, music. Rather than cramming 3 or 4 artists per blog it's been suggested to dedicate a blog per artist and simply blog more often. Fair enough, here's the blog on 51 Breaks.
On joining the community in May, their two submitted tracks quickly stood out from the rest of that weeks submissions.
Overall, 51 Break's sound consists of a richly layered style of production with tight vocal harmonies over synth beds with strong chrouses. Will be interesting to see how this is translated into their live performance as there is a great deal going on in the tracks. If any of you have seem them live recently be sure to mention it here as I'm curious to find out. Will try and make it to a gig soon.
51 breaks like to keep it in the family as the lineup consist of brothers Colin and Michael Turner, cousin Tom Harman with adopted random Sam Jones. On record, sound very tight overall and from the sound they're already paired up with a decent producer.
Marc tells me that they're trying to push through the rock stage of their writing into something with more of a dance influence citing the likes of Bloc Party and Klaxons as inspiration. Seeing where they're at now it would be interesting to see how this evolves. Whether productions become more sparse to accomdate a beat driven sound, or stick with their thick blanket of tracked guitar textures and compressed vocal harmonies.
Just the two tracks at the moment though I'm told there is more to come. Have a listen to Blueprints and Dirty Hands, and leave a few messages here on your thoughts of the tracks. I'd also be interested in hearing what you want to see included here, or what developments you'd like to see in the way music is handled/displayed/experienced within Vox.
The band:
Michael Turner - Vocals/Keys
Sam Jones - Guitar/Vocals/Percussion
Tom Harman - Bass
Marc Turner - Drums
Gigs:
27/06/2007 - Firebug, Leicester
28/06/2007 - Pendant Club, Loughborough
21/07/2007 - Bar Academy - Birmingham
Extra Stuff:
Escape - an earlier song performed in rehearsal
