vacuous pop presents... Ill Ease, Data.Select.Party, The Late Greats

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Ill Ease
Ill Ease was born as a recording project when an old 8-track, a haunted piano and a guitar amp with no off-switch for the vibrato were left in an abandoned auto shop in Brooklyn. Since then, Ill Ease has gone live and toured across the states and Europe several times in "a flurry of intoxication".

The live show is Rolling Stones 45s all scratched and skipping to a noisy new york beat. Dancy dissonance that won't stumble home, a one-piece that sounds like a 5 piece. Spazzy drum grooves with crazy guitar and bass riffs looped on top like sugar smacks. Fruity loops-de-loopy-ist!!

Like a moldy peach playing patty-cake with can. Bad times never seemed so good. - Spin

A dark blend of low-fi, fuzzed out guitars, thrashy hip-hop style drums and Sharp's pleasantly off-kilter vocals... 8 out of a near perfect 10 - Alternative Press

Addictive, rhythm-heavy compositions infused with slippery vocals and weaving guitars; when embellished with her outburts of 'yea' and 'uh-huh,' Sharp's songs achieve maximum bump and grind. - Magnet

Filled with sly beats and overdubbed vocals, Ill Ease makes slick rock music that sexily slip and trips on itself--like a drunk friend whose word-slurring only enhances her magnetic appeal... musically catchy and lyrically intriguing - Venus

www.myspace.com/illease


DATA.SELECT.PARTY
"Data.select.party are the perfect tonic to help you clutch onto the forgotten summer joy. Imagine a popped up, punked up version of Minus The Bear."

"Careening through a Rapturous (wheeey!) twenty minutes of Les Savy Fav-inspired frenzy, data.select.party allow no room for inertia. Handclaps? Check. Intertwining, spiky clean guitars? Check. Group shouting? Check. DISCO PARTY? You bet. They're unlikely to change the world, but did Churchill ever make you dance like this? Like hell he did!" (The Social in London w/ DARTZ!) - WWW.DISORDERMAGAZINE.COM

"If you do one thing today, listen to DSP. They sing with more frenzied pop ferocity than early Idlewild. Like Hot Club de Paris but much more interesting, we even forgive them for the whistling section in jitter-punk opener 'She's an Eyeful on the Alley' – which, incidentally, is so good we almost had a fit on first listen." (8/10) - WWW.BACKBEATBANDS.CO.UK

"Running on sheer word of mouth, their disco style drumming, amazingly intricate fret-tapping from guitarist James and unwittingly infectious choruses have obviously been emailed all across the Kent/Sussex border. As a result, the sell out crowd actually dance about and sing along. As it stands DSP are an imaginative and infectiously unusual bunch who easily deserve to be playing to crowds of this size, despite their relative infancy." - DISORDERMAGAZINE.COM

www.myspace.com/dataselectparty


The Late Greats
UK band who fuse elements of The Only Ones, The Shangri-Las and Pixies. Released their debut single 'Bang Bang/Life Without Balloons' in autumn 2005 with follow up, the insanely catchy "Destroy My Brain" last autumn.

Eastbourne's finest arrive in a concussive blur of speed. Driven dually by a minimalist, hectoring, almost Fall-esque vocal that occasionally verges on cracking and a drummer who seems intent upon ending his existence before the ending of the song, this is a very lean three-minute experience. Reminiscent of the Pixies (a band they must have heard in the cradle) the Late Greats possess an intriguing ability to be simultaneously chaotic and flowing and, here, capture all the mind-bending exhilaration of an out-of-control relationship. - URB ezine

www.myspace.com/thelategreatsuk