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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:27 pm 
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2:54 To Release Debut Album

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Editorial: New Releases, 12 March 2012

By Gordon, Thursday 8th March 2012 11.15am (340 views)

Over the past year 2:54 - sister duo Colette and Hannah Thurlow – have established themselves as one of 2012's most important breakthrough UK bands. With the announcement of their eponymous debut album, to be released on May 28th, they're preparing to unveil the writing and recording work that's occupied much of their time since the band's inception, and fans of their unique and enveloping sound should prepare to have their expectations obliterated.

Occupying a low-lit, vivid space, they unite a distinct concoction of ideas and influences that taps a rock and punk lineage notoriously anchored by the likes of Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss. However, their sound neatly neighbours the darker, atmospheric reaches of today's R'n'B finest, as well as timeless walls of sound. The fact 2:54 have picked up fans from all the above worlds and more is testament not only to their sophisticated and nuanced tastes, but just how compelling a proposition the music they make is. Yet it's only now, with this their first full-length offering that the power of what they do will be revealed for all to see.

The Thurlow sisters taught themselves to play guitar as teenagers, but it wasn't until the closing moments of 2010 that the very first lo-fi 2:54 home demos leaked onto the web, prompting a flurry of critical acclaim that's only ever grown with the band. They became the act that all the best bands around wanted on the road with them, touring with everyone from Warpaint and Wild Beasts to Melissa Auf De Maur, Yuck, The Maccabees and most recently, The Big Pink. Their debut limited seven-inch 'On A Wire' whetted critics appetites, consolidating plaudits that have now reached everywhere from revered US critics like Pitchfork, SPIN, Fader, Gorilla Versus Bear and Stereogum, to UK bibles like NME, Q magazine, Kerrang, and onto the radars of broadsheet press like The Guardian, The Times and The Independent.

Signing to Fiction (The Cure, Crystal Castles etc) mid last year, the 'Scarlet' EP gave the world the first taste of the forthcoming long-player with its title track, plus three hard-hitting B-sides. Its hazy, leviathan sound was hypnotically hooky, feeling both alien and familiar at the same time. The Pitchfork premiere of their latest single 'You're Early' last week saw 10 thousand hits in 24 hours, unveiling a US signing to Fat Possum, and displaying a more groove-focused side to the band's bow, a brazenly infectious stormer of a song.

Recorded mostly by Mercury-winning producer Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey etc), and all mixed by the legendary Alan Moulder (Smashing Pumpkins, Nine In Nails etc), their debut album collects together a cohesive and captivating selection of highlights from their already burgeoning catalogue. The 10 songs that together make up '2:54' are ripe with danger and beauty. This is a record that thrums with life, signalled immediately with the gale-force opener, 'Revolving', a real bittersweet blizzard. From then on the sisters Thurlow proceed to mine their own distinctive brand of haunted, freaked grooves and cloud-bursting melody, channelling love, loss and longing to spellbinding effect. This is an album with truly no filler.

First spin will leave the propulsive, woozy thrust of 'Easy Undercover's refrains ringing in heads, as will the duelling guitars and surging, urgent cry of 'Sugar's' dance floor rhythms. The smouldering solemnity of 'Circuitry' neighbours the delicate, scorched beauty of 'Watcher' with album closer 'Creeping', realised here in magnificent and malevolent new form that few will be prepared for.

http://www.glasswerk.co.uk/news/nationa ... ebut+Album

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Tracklisting below. No 'Cold Front'?!:

1. Revolving
2. You're Early
3. Easy Undercover
4. A Salute
5. Scarlet
6. Sugar
7. Circuitry
8. Watcher
9. Ride
10. Creeping

Hannah and Colette in classic 'band members-looking-off-in-different-directions' pose:

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Clip from first L.A. show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgFXw2_N9ZI

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Video for 'You're Early':

http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/new- ... y-20120329

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Back in the USA, plus 3 dates in Canada, in June:

6/9 Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory *
6/10 Washington, DC - Rocknroll Hotel *

6/11 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
6/13 Boston, MA - TT The Bears *
6/14 Montreal, QUE - Divan Orange *

6/15 Toronto, ONT - NXNE/Lee’s Palace *

6/16 Columbus, OH - VENUE TBA *

6/17 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
6/18 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock *
6/21 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile *
6/22 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *
6/23 Vancouver, BC - Biltmore *
6/25 San Francisco, CA - Independent *
6/26 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour *
6/27 San Diego, CA - Casbah *

* = Widowspeak

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Album cover image:

'We wanted to share our album cover with you. The photograph was taken by Harley Weir at Doolin Point, Co.Clare, Ireland. A place Hannah and I spent our childhood Summers.'

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Live clip of 'You're Early' in Austin during SXSW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjDctfPWzIM

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This was played last night in Bristol, named 'Sides' on the setlist, didn't recognise it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ1eL6TgWSw

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This was played last night in Bristol, named 'Sides' on the setlist, didn't recognise it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ1eL6TgWSw


I see you recorded 'Sugar' and some of Chelsea Wolfe too. 'Sides' is a new one to me too.

Looks like the stage is twice the size of the one last night! Chelsea Wolfe was really good. I walked in and a two-piece band was playing and I'm pretty sure it was local band Time Brings Age, who I saw supporting Howling Bells last year. A pleasant surprise because I have a soft spot for them. They sounded a lot more bluesy than last time.

I thought the band was drowning out Colette's voice a bit; sounded like that when I saw them back in February. Funny thing was when Colette said, "Did someone just throw a drink at my sister?" and Hannah said, words to the effect, "I'll just avoid the puddle." But they carried on as if nothing happened and I didn't see anyone escorted out! A bit odd. They carried on like a bunch of troopers! :-)

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That venue was a veritable Tardis of a (transport) boat, twice the size inside than what it looked like from the outside! :shocked:

Yeah, lucky to get Chelsea Wolfe too, a double headliner really. She only played Bristol and Brighton apparently. I put both sets on Dime now anyway if they're of interest.

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ethereal wrote:
That venue was a veritable Tardis of a (transport) boat, twice the size inside than what it looked like from the outside! :shocked:

Yeah, lucky to get Chelsea Wolfe too, a double headliner really. She only played Bristol and Brighton apparently. I put both sets on Dime now anyway if they're of interest.


2 images - 1 of 2:54, 1 of Chelsea Wolfe - by photographer, Veronika Moore. The stage looks bigger than I remember:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/veronikamoore/6928803068/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/veronikamo ... otostream/

A few from Leeds; taken by Danny Payne. Fantastic image of Colette here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannypayne ... 079516105/

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Interview with Colette and Hannah. Looks like it might be in their 'local'.
They discuss working with Rob Ellis at 2:48 mark...not 2:54, 2:48. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvksuPkWbRg

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sau wrote:
ethereal wrote:
This was played last night in Bristol, named 'Sides' on the setlist, didn't recognise it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ1eL6TgWSw


I see you recorded 'Sugar' and some of Chelsea Wolfe too. 'Sides' is a new one to me too.

Looks like the stage is twice the size of the one last night! Chelsea Wolfe was really good. I walked in and a two-piece band was playing and I'm pretty sure it was local band Time Brings Age, who I saw supporting Howling Bells last year. A pleasant surprise because I have a soft spot for them. They sounded a lot more bluesy than last time.

I thought the band was drowning out Colette's voice a bit; sounded like that when I saw them back in February. Funny thing was when Colette said, "Did someone just throw a drink at my sister?" and Hannah said, words to the effect, "I'll just avoid the puddle." But they carried on as if nothing happened and I didn't see anyone escorted out! A bit odd. They carried on like a bunch of troopers! :-)


Correction: bunch of troupers!

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'You're Early' - the Wild Beasts Re-Mix:

http://www.nme.com/news/254/63076

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What they call a 'teaser clip' for their debut album, released 28th May.

'Easy Undercover'

http://soundcloud.com/twofiftyfour/2-54 ... er/s-xCBW6

Signed copies of the album available here:

http://www.recordstore.co.uk/recordstor ... 0000?back=

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'A live version of Easy Undercover filmed beneath the Fiction label offices'!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDVZB4twGL0

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