The Lift Men
The Lift Men

This record left our Clint feeling happy.

Now then, The Lift Men - this is much much more like it. I'm not sure how to explain how this album is so much enjoyable than the last one - it has the same ingredients but the songs kind of come out of a much more obtuse place. Its not singer songwriter stuff with added instruments - it emerges fully formed - the guitars twist around in ever shifting patterns almost like 'Ice Cream for Crow' era Captain Beefheart, though the general feel is of someone like Pram, Life Without Buildings or perhaps Blonde Redhead. The press release mentions Young Marble Giants and I see where they are coming from even though the record sounds nothing like them - these are eerie spacious songs with at times almost childlike vocals and skewed melodies. The self-titled CD/LP is on Twisted Nerve.

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What their label says...

This unlikely group of pond-life obsessives formed in the confines of a Bristolian industrial lift in 2002.
The spawn of the Liftmen's newt-ridden nucleus begs inadequate comparison with the likes of Prag Vec, Tortoise, Thee Headcoatees and Young Marble Giants but sounds a little bit like none of the above.
Consisting of the core members Rasha Shaheen, Neil Smith, Jamie Whitby-Coles and Jesse D. Vernon, a fully formed Liftmen first knocked on Twisted Nerve’s door in 2005, making their label debut on the pocket sized second-class-tome ‘Now Is The Winter Of Our Discount Tents’ compilation.
Recorded with Portishead’s Jim Barr and featuring guest vocals courtesy of Tammy Payne (Jukes), The Liftmen’s full length Twisted Nerve debut is in keeping with the label’s original singular minded and independent non-record label A&R policy of 'releasing music that you wouldn't hear elsewhere'.
This fine subversive precedes the 10th Anniversary of Manchester’s very own homemade and house-proud, singular minded and independent non-record label.
Consistently jarring with the status quo their thoroughly unreliable and schizophrenic release schedules fits like a fingerless glove on an octopus whilst embracing the true nature of the independent record label with little regard to the impractical standards of the major music industry Twisted Nerve has conspired to bring you the closest thing to a community run industry with our privately pressed and handmade products.

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