"avant noisescapes, cartoon garage pop, microtonal glitches and brain-bashing punk rock" Joy Collective Review

“Cardiff should feel privileged to host such an event” From Now On 2015 has been reviewed in this month's WIRE Magazine:

"Cardiff should feel privileged to host such an event" Our festival of adventurous music 'From Now On' has been reviewed in the May 2015 issue of WIRE Magazine:

Them Squirrels at From Now On 2015 by Joe Singh. Full album on the 2015 tab above. Thank you to all performers, audience, the sound team and everyone at Chapter for helping make it a wonderful couple of days. See you next year.

An East London four-piece two seven-inch singles old and with a full menu’s worth of disparate musical ingredients, Giant Burger style themselves as ‘Doom Meat Pop’. If they’ve got a secret recipe, it’s probably because it’s impossible for them to replicate; stylistically all over the map, a fiercely enjoyable dayglo mash-up of cheapo keyboards, countrified surf twang, frenzied post-punk yelping and stop-start prog weirdness that might remind you of the Cardiacs or The Mae Shi or Devo. Fairground organ and silly voices and fragmented hooklines that burrow their way into your subconscious and make you grin and flail. In a healthy way. https://giantburger.bandcamp.com/

Swarming, blissfully seductive collision of psych/space rock atmospherics, shuddering doom riffs and hazy, elliptical shoegaze tendencies from a Bristol duo whose debut album, recorded with Charlie from kindred spirits Thought Forms on drums, is due out early in 2015. Teasingly drawn-out, gloriously loud epics of crackling, fuzz-heavy guitar meandering, ominous bass rumbles and frayed, thundercloud drumming that weld Bardo Pond’s skyscraping ambition and Grails’ mystical, slo-mo ambience to the swooning power of My Bloody Valentine. Epic, desert-dry and powerfully effective stuff to lose yourself in. https://venacavabristol.bandcamp.com/

Them Squirrels have taken a leisurely journey towards the debut album that finally emerges in 2015. The Them Scribbles EP (Shape Records), way back in 2009 now, was effectively a solo-with-friends bedroom enterprise from frontman JT (also of Islet), a cut-and-paste patchwork of stuttering rhythms, jabs of ticklish guitar, thickets of mangled synth and tape noise and JT’s keening, folkish vocals. Their intermittent live appearances transfer the approach to a full band, a jumble of percussion, violin, frenzied tempo shifts and knotty prog/pop wonder. Epic album taster ‘Echo Chant’, previewed last year, touches on Do Make Say Think and airy Krautrock across ten blissed-out minutes. Awkward and cuddly in appropriate measures, and always hugely welcome. Words by Will Steen, Joy Collective https://themsquirrels.bandcamp.com