Found - Machine Age Dancing

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 03 Mar, 2011.

These guys have signed to Chemikal Underground after being on Fence for a while. There's an album due in a week or two but this week sees the release of Machine Age Dancing! It's an interesting one this... They've somehow managed to cram about a thousand styles of music into one single and somehow make it work. That takes a few things, namely; skill, balls, integrity, stupidly and maybe drugs as well. The A-side starts off with an echoey 50s style beat with a Panda Bear-esque feel to it before a syncopated glitchy beat comes in and the song takes a different twist...... Then come the sci-fi sounds and the classic indie sounding guitar and it continues all over the shop. It's essentially an entire album crammed into four minutes. Fuck knows how they've done it and made it sound good but it has to be commended.

This is the first single to be taken from FOUND’s upcoming
debut on Chemikal Underground ‘factorycraft’. The single and album are FOUND’s first full blown studio recordings, having previously released a series of acclaimed singles and an album on cult Scottish label Fence.

The 7” single is strictly limited to 500 copies.

FOUND, a BAFTA award-winning art-collective when they’re not busy making music, manage to fuse a host of eclectic musical styles into their work and never more so than on ‘Machine Age Dancing’.

Careering between Wire-influenced punk and Joe Meek sci-fi pop, the glitchy electronica and pounding, reverbed drums of ‘Machine Age Dancing’ evoke images of Hot Chip going toe-to-toe with The Crystals.

The stark, monochrome artwork, the theme of which runs through the album art also, is the product of the band’s keen eye for an image and is a piece of art in its own right.

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