Artist: Switches
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Heart Tuned to Dead (Preview)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
Playing tough, witty, and hook-laden stone that exists in a time warp where glam rock and Britpop ar the talk of the British Isles at the same time, Switches ar the inspiration of booster cable vocalist and guitarist Matt Bishop. Bishop claims he was already writing songs on a tiny guitar made for him by his father (a BBC locomotive engineer) at the age of five, and began recording them on a Fisher-Price cassette machine, creating overdubs by playing back his creations on his mom's stereo system and singing along with them. (Bishop adds that since he only knew two or trio chords at the time, most of these songs tended to resemble T. Rex.) As he grew sr., Bishop became an obsessive partizan of all things rock, and as a adolescent he gradatory to a four-track porta-studio which he secondhand to proceed his experiments in unlocking the secrets of record book output. When he went away to college, Bishop began putting together a striation with like-minded classmates, and with Ollie Thomas on lead story guitar, Max Tite on bass, and Jimmy G on drums, Matt Rock and the Others was innate. In 2002, the chemical group south Korean won a university-sponsored Battle of the Bands, claiming number 1 prize -- the opening slot on a countrywide go by the Darkness. Convinced they had a future on music, Bishop and his match fall by the wayside schoolhouse and resettled to Guildford, where they began severely working up songs and changed their name to Switches. After signing to the independent Degenerate Music label, the stria recorded an eclecticist five-song demonstration and flew to the United States to represent a showcase at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, TX. Between the demonstration and their manic alive show, Switches made a major impression on American A&R work force, and they sign a deal with Atlantic Records. Writing material in 'tween tours with the likes of Graham Coxon, Hard-Fi, the Rakes, and Louis XIV, Switches released their debut EP, Message from Yuz, in the summer of 2006. With ternion singles following in later 2006 and early 2007, Switches in conclusion released their first full album, Heart Tuned to D.E.A.D., on April 23, 2007.
