"I've got the taste of things I hate..."
Some songs are just easier to feel than to describe. "Lucy, Lucy" by UK based divergent alt pop rockers congratulations is one such song. You can definitely feel the big caustic bass walls, lo-fi-esque stabs of guitars (and or synths) and side shifting beats pushed with gleeful fuzz pedaled over modulation by Greg Burns and James Gillingham. You can definitely marvel at the harmonious somehow otherworldly croons of Leah Stanhope and Jamie Chellar who somehow cast sonic shadows that feel like a collision of Prince & the Revolution and Siouxsie and the Banshees as produced by a 90's Beck and Tom Rothrock.
Greg who also produced the track shares:
“We’re keen to avoid pigeonholing ourselves- we like the idea of free flowing influences in every track, letting anything and everything seep through - that way they always come out sounding like us” and “The best music has to have some level of self awareness, we always want to be able to laugh at ourselves. There’s definitely a space in rock music at the moment for that refreshing kind of mentality, do what you love but don’t take yourself so seriously”.
Press Notes tell the tale of a cross collateral creative entity where everyone contributes:
Press Notes tell the tale of a cross collateral creative entity where everyone contributes:
[Holed up for over a year in various sheds and bedrooms- and very occasionally a studio- congratulations have honed their craft, writing and recording nearly an albums worth of material, ‘Lucy, Lucy’ being the first track to be shown to the world, with all four members meticulously involved in every aspect of the recording, production, and artwork.]
“We do work really hard at it all, and we all have opinions so it can be tricky to please everyone, but it’s never really stressful or unpleasant because at the core of everything, we always try and have fun. We’re always laughing. We’ve all done the ‘serious band’ thing and this isn’t that!” comments Jamie.
The more I listen to "Lucy, Lucy" I feel like I am staring at a cross genre'd, cross generational piece of art: proto-punkian daring late 70's do's, 80's new wave and funk rock, 90's sampling inspired fuzz box beats all rolled into one and smoked.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.instagram.com/congratulationsunofficial/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5MIBWkaaa46VVhGqgru_lw
https://soundcloud.com/c0ngratulations
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Zd0jI43rmogm8qVt2QAdq
congratulations are four friends who found each other at the right time, fell into each other’s arms and started making music they liked; boasting an impressive array of different influences, unashamedly intertwined into their songs. Holed up for over a year in various sheds and bedrooms - and very occasionally a studio - congratulations have honed their craft, writing and recording an album’s worth of material, with all four members involved in every aspect of the recording, production, and artwork. Then there’s the live show. The band shed their meticulously prepared uniforms of orange, blue, red and yellow over the course of a sweat-drenched and raucous set which swerves from one multifarious banger to the next, from the planned to the unscripted. Jamie will see you in the crowd, Leah ascending to another place, with Greg on his knees and James leaving everything at the kit.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.instagram.com/congratulationsunofficial/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5MIBWkaaa46VVhGqgru_lw
https://soundcloud.com/c0ngratulations
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Zd0jI43rmogm8qVt2QAdq
congratulations are four friends who found each other at the right time, fell into each other’s arms and started making music they liked; boasting an impressive array of different influences, unashamedly intertwined into their songs. Holed up for over a year in various sheds and bedrooms - and very occasionally a studio - congratulations have honed their craft, writing and recording an album’s worth of material, with all four members involved in every aspect of the recording, production, and artwork. Then there’s the live show. The band shed their meticulously prepared uniforms of orange, blue, red and yellow over the course of a sweat-drenched and raucous set which swerves from one multifarious banger to the next, from the planned to the unscripted. Jamie will see you in the crowd, Leah ascending to another place, with Greg on his knees and James leaving everything at the kit.
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congratulations, Garage Rock, fuzz box, dirty, surreal, art punk, art pop, UK, "Lucy, Lucy", broke the blame, our love is pain, performance artists,
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