ARTEFACTS FOR SPACE TRAVEL

The band took many forms through ’07 but now we’ve settled as a solid three-piece (phew) Joe, Sam, and Alex. We’re three young men from South London but we don’t incorporate much daily life type stuff into our music. Social commentary is extremely boring. I would say our songs are surreal, yet highly meaningful. We love escaping into our imaginations. We feel we have a firm grasp of the pop form. We use our instincts when writing tunes, playing around with familiar sounding song structures while bending them into something new and exciting (to us at least). We’ve been called dystopianist, which is cool in a sci-fi kind of way, but there’s a lot of fun and happiness to us as well. We are influenced by individual songs rather than particular bands. We have a lot of respect for prolific artists such as Billy Childish, Mark E. Smith, Robert Pollard, and anyone who has the talent to evolve and remain interesting. Our lyrics are important to us and are written with true feeling and a sense of permanence. We care about music and don’t just want to party, but we really do love partying lots – every single night. We rehearse in our bedrooms. We are a bedroom rock band and we make songs quickly and simply to capture the energy. If something takes too long it ends up sounding tired. Impatience is a virtue. That’s how we like it. We play our guitars extra loud and whack the drums extra hard. Themes in our songs so far have included death, space, sea creatures, romance, a spider trapped in a dolls house, childhood memories, apocalypse, animals, suburban life and love. Highlights of our short career so far have included getting signed to Stolen Recordings, supporting Sunburned Hand of the Man, playing at the ’Sup party, making new friends and releasing our single “Lucy”.

Thanks!
Joe

From: London
Website: myspace.com/artefactsforspacetravel