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AC Acoustics
12+ albums
indie rockScottishalternativeglasgowfuzz
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Active from 1990 to 2003, AC Acoustics (preferably stylized ac acoustics) from Glasgow, United Kingdom, briefly flirted with a breakthrough in the mid and late 1990s, when they were widely championed by the music press and by peers such as Placebo. However, they remained a cult band of Scottish indie rock, perhaps best known for their 1996 single 'Stunt Girl' and the 1997 Victory Parts album, which the band promoted on tours with Embrace, Stereophonics, dEUS and Placebo. 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 5-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' b/w 'MV' (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. Shortly after this release, Mark Raine replaced Roger Ward on guita
