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Artist
The Electric Stars
12+ albums
garagemodpsychsoul
about
The Electric Stars occupy a space all their own. If you'd been watching Ready Steady Go in the 60s, TotP in the 70s, The Tube in the 80s or The Word in the 90s, their tracks would have fit right in alongside The Kinks, T-Rex, The Cure or Happy Mondays. Today, you'll find parallels with more recent bands like Kasabian, The White Stripes or OCS: power pop with a distinct 'electric' psych vibe as its backbone. That's because the band draw on a plethora of influences, absorb those bands' ethos right down to their souls, float them around in the whirlpool that is Manchester awhile, then belt them out in their own take on psych, from subtle mellow to ear-bursting garage rock. This band of "like-minded freaks" got together in 2011, its members having toured the Manc circuit individually with a number of other bands. The result? A "Psychedelic Rock n Roll Speedball bursting with Glamtastic guitars, Hippy lyrics & drenched in Soul." 2012 saw the band sign to Detour Records and release their first single, "I Want You" under the "Paisley Archive" child label in March. The uber-mellow "Sonic Candy Soul", subtitled "Beautiful Music for Beautiful People", followed in September of the same year, full of soul, gospel and psych. The album was critically well-received and made the Top 12 of 2012 in 'Scootering Magazine'. Their studio act translates perfectly to stage: a celebration of the decades mixed through the mangler that is Mancunian music heritage. They've played with the likes
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