As Yorkshire's most incendiary offspring, This Et Al have proven that the slow-fuse often produces the most explosive results. Having previously been compared to My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Queens Of The Stone Age, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead and Sonic Youth; the band announce the full release of their debut album; ‘Baby Machine’...
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As Yorkshire's most incendiary offspring, This Et Al have proven that the slow-fuse often produces the most explosive results. Having previously been compared to My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Queens Of The Stone Age, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead and Sonic Youth; the band announce the full release of their debut album; ‘Baby Machine’. After releasing a handful of limited edition singles and compilation tracks on some the hippest labels in the UK (Jealous Records, Dance To The Radio), This Et Al spent most of 2006 recording with producer Richard Green (Ultrasound, The Somatics) in his all-analogue Attic Studio in Leeds.
With the release of their debut long-player ‘Baby Machine’ (FC Recordings/Cargo) this April, This Et Al uncover a world of savagery and disenchantment, a society rife with domestic abuse, policecorruption and drug-abuse, brilliantly encapsulated in uncompromising lyrics, soaring melodies, and heart-rending performances. ‘Baby Machine’ is a harsh and passionate journey into the paranoia of the new post-millennial underclasses.
LIVE
“It’s Muse without the pompousness. It’s Sonic Youth with catchy songs. It’s This Et Al and its ace.” - NME
“With a sound so off-the-Richter-scale colossal that at one point you consider calling the emergency services (who’d only stand there, gobsmacked, doing fuck all) yet somehow so breathtakingly delicate, they defy gravity, spinning a web between the two extremes and flitting around like some mysterious, roaring changeling.” - Plan B Magazine
“Sounds like Placebo flame-throwing their way through Biffy Clyro's back catalogue.” - The Fly
“Style, nuance, and charisma wrapped up in a painfully gorgeous controlled havoc.” - DrownedInSound.com
ALBUM
“Their eleven-track debut practically drips ambition” - DrownedInSound.com
“What is impressive about Baby Machine: it's confrontational, frantic…it rushes along at a havoc-wreaking pace” - SoundsXP.com
“A cleverly orchestrated album of infectious pop hooks with a push towards more colourful post rock guitar weaving. Really a band you shouldn’t miss out on.” - Subba-Cultcha.com
“This is one hell of an angry affair…Baby Machine is a dynamic and explosive take on the post punk/rock sound” - LeedsMusicScene.net
“…The album is an urgent, self-assured piece of work that blends visions of a troubled future with breathless vocals, skewed lyrics and nerve-wracked guitars...This Et Al are teetering on the brink – in more than one way…” - MapsMagazine.co.uk
"In the eleven tracks there are obsessively catchy hooks, starkly cruel lyrics, thunderous crescendos and a single-minded passion that will connect with everyone who knows what a rotting city in a broken economy can do to the human spirit." - WhisperinAndHollerin.com
“…this album is absolutely fucking outstanding” - AversionOnline.com
“This Et Al deserve to be, and no doubt will be, absolutely massive.” - ContactMusic.com
“‘Baby Machine , a debut record which, if there’s any justice, will be snapped up by a major in super quick time and then sold to the masses as ‘the album Mogwai would make were Josh Homme frontman'" - GigWise.com
“..there's also the ability to capture energy, that few bands other than Interpol have managed before….(This Et Al) could, perhaps one day, be my favourite band ever!” - DesignerPunk.co.uk
“At times euphoric, but always brimming with force, clarity and having something to say, This Et Al have an album that should definitely be appreciated" - RoomThirteen.com
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