24th March 2010
BBC Introducing… Eaststikeswest(live) Chris TT(live) Ben Marwood(live)
Eaststrikewest
“Like this. Big and bold sounding.”
- Zane Lowe (Radio 1/MTV2)
‘Top 60 Records Of The Moment/Website Of The Week’
- Steve Lamacq (Radio 1)
“I’m a sucker for big anthemic indie shoe-gaze pop songs and this fits the bill on all counts!”
- Nic Harcourt (LA Times Magazine/KCRW)
ONLINE MAGAZINES/BLOGS:
“Perhaps one of the most ambitious and epic releases of the year, this is a modern-day masterpiece that is virtually flawless.” [9/10]
- Dieshellsuit.co.uk (Album Review)
“Anthemic and epic.” [9/10]
- Rockpulse.co.uk (Album Review)
“Don’t be at all surprised if this band lead the genre in the 2010 years.” [8.5/10]
- Rockfreaks.net (Album Review)
“EastStrikeWest might just be your new favourite band.” [4.5/5]
- Alterthepress.com (Album Review)
“The album is very impressive, cinematic in scope, soaring and shimmering in all the right ways.” [10/13]
- Roomthirteen.com (Album Review)
“Wolvves is a genuinely exciting offering that expertly walks the line between grandiosity and OTT. Essential listening.” [4/5]
- Rockmidgets.com (Album Review)
“Steve Lamacq has picked up on Eaststrikewest as ‘one to look out for in 2009’ and having now given the album a fair few spins, I can’t help but think he may be right.” [4/5]
- Subba-Cultcha.com (Album Review)
“London’s EaststrikeWest immediately take you back to the heady days of Hope of The States at their loudest and electric best. “Wolvves” is a searching, epic album underpinned by solid bass lines, progressive rock overtures and an effective veneer of strings.” [4/5]
- Music-Dash.co.uk (Album Review)
“A breath-taking record.” [7/10]
- Thesilentballet.com (Album Review)
“Wolvves is an album that will shape and capture your mood to such an extent that you are likely at some point to discover that it has stolen away your whole evening leaving yourself feeling emotionally charged” [83%]
- Rock3music.com (Album Review)
“In recent weeks Eaststrikewest have managed to garner praise from people such as Zane Lowe for their shoegazing, progressive crossover style and I have to say I’m going to agree with this.” [73%]
- Altsounds.com (Album Review)
“For a young band they seem to have a lot to get off their chest. ‘Wolvves’ is their debut and it’s not a record that’s easy to ignore.”
- Leonard’s Lair (Album Review)
“Every tune is a gorgeously produced, layered work of art. It really is a thing of beauty.”
- Tastyfanzine.org.uk (Album Review)
“This is a clear-sounding album with a biblically proportioned aura draped across it. The songs are the size of a small country and have a depth you could drown Mount Olympus in”
- Rockrealms.com (Album Review)
“This band is making a large impression on how British Indie music should be rethinking its style.”
- Maddogmagazine.com (Album Review)
LIVE:
“Swirling strings danced around in the mix, the orchestral edge adding to the theatricality of the singers falsetto – hinting at a band with the potential to redefine the parameters of epic song-writing.”
- Artrocker.com (Live Review)
http://www.myspace.com/eaststrikewestband
Chris TT
“As grandiose as The Killers, the suave ‘This Gun’ and punky ‘King Of England’ spit hummable fire, while closer ‘4am’ elegantly distils everything that already passed.”
JOHN AIZLEWOOD, Q MAGAZINE (****)
“Richly layered both musically and lyrically, songs spin between vitriolic anger, witty self-deprecation and arch political condemnation. Like Kerouac and Wylie, T-T understands what is subversive about love. We should cherish such poets.”
ALISTAIR FITCHETT, PLAN B MAGAZINE
“Extraordinary. A terrifying and thrilling experience… as a theme, violence is less an undercurrent and more a seething torrent. Capital’s London pulsates with unease.”
JAMES WALSH, MORNING STAR
“Another winner. One of the finest and most consistent songwriters this country has seen this century.”
THISISMUSIC.COM
http://www.myspace.com/christtuk
PLEASE IGNORE THE DATE THIS HAS BEEN PUBLISHED. IT IS INCORRECT. ALL SHOWS ABOVE 2010!!!