SIAN ALICE GROUP Confirm Pure Groove In-Store and UK Dates
August 15, 2009, 12:25 PM Views: 305
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 London collective, Sian Alice Group - Sian Ahern, Rupert Clervaux and Ben Crook - have confirmed an instore at PURE GROOVE RECORDS on Monday 17th August. Added to which, the band have also confirmed UK and North American dates to support theiracclaimedsecond album of lush, minimalist, panoramic torch songs, Troubled, Shaken Etc. (Beautiful Happiness/ Social Registry).
With support for the band constantly growing, the Sian Alice Group continue to build on previous successes - from Uncut to Spin, Clash to AMG, Drowned in Sound to XLR8R and continue to innovate along the way.
Sian Alice Group will head out on the road first in the UK and then in the US from mid September; UK dates include shows with Gang Gang Dance in both Manchester and Bristol.UK DATES:
17-Aug London Pure Groove ++IN STORE – 7.30pm++
18-Aug Manchester Deaf Institute with Gang Gang Dance
19-Aug Bristol Fleece & Firkin with Gang Gang Dance
02-Sep Sheffield The Harley Drowned in Sound presents….
03-Sept Brighton Freebutt
04-Sept TBC TBC
05-Sept London Tabernacle
06-Sept London Offset Festival
"While many of their more forward-thinking compatriots transcend the odd genre or two, Sian Alice Group simply confound categorisation in any way, shape or form. Troubled, Shaken Etc. is a deftly-secured trove of deeply hidden treasures, that once discovered, will be hard to resist." - Drowned In Sound (8/10)
"Sian Alice Group create mood songs as discrete units, each as bulletproof -- or smudgeproof -- as the band itself." - Spin (***1/2)
“Troubled, Shaken Etc. is an album: paced, sequenced, structured, and produced as such. Its utterly lovely, feminine, and subtly adventurous. The listener is given a soft, quiet, sonic bedroom and allowed to dwell in there, a mental place where time is suspended and the outside world vanishes entirely, for close to an hour.” – All Music Guide (****)
"An amalgamation of folk rock, prog, and dance with influences ranging from Hounds Of Love–era Kate Bush to Bat For Lashes to Gang Gang Dance. The experimentation with different genres and instruments leaves the audience enthralled." - VenusZine (***1/2)
"The rock aesthetes in Sian Alice Group have a fetish for tones and textures, from electronic pulses and Velvets-like riffs to scratched guitar strings, which they tweak, layer, and slowly fade throughout." - XLR8R
“The gossamer whorls of luminescence on Sian Alice Group’s sophomore album, Troubled, Shaken Etc. resembles a kaleidoscope. Ambient 70s soundscapes easily transmute into four-to-floor techno raves and interweave and lock into hypnotic arpeggios.” – Under The Radar
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Sian Alice Group set to release 'Troubled, Shaken Etc'