Description:	10" inc free MP3's on Hansard Records edn of 300
	Format:	10" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Hansard
	Price:	£4.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brian on 08 January 2009.

ddd. Yes that's the name. Catchy. Is it pronounced dee dee dee or Triple D or what? Like the lower case, well esoteric. Anyhow, they've a weird old 10" out comprising of spindly electro flecked art-rock with a strange industrial sheen. Slightly abrasive male vocals bounce of a drum machine whilst distorted shards of trebly guitar stab your ears off. It's probably got as much in common with the likes of Fad Gadget as any of the contemporary fringe agit pop players. Big Black have been mentioned but so has 'Warm Leatherette' They're obviously in love with that caustic, fractured sound but can't help coming across like a more mechanised version of Big Flame without the galloping buzzsaw mania and with more frowning. Not everyone's bag but I love the fact they're forging their own place in the baffling pantheon of modern indie music. 3 tracks on a 1 sided 10" EP with a brilliant screen printed sleeve featuring a picture of some horses in negative.

Love this record? Hate it? Tell us.

What their label says...

NME: Like Lou Barlow's Sentridoh project crossed with Thom Yorke (back when he really didn't want to be in just another guitar band).  Somehow it's dead catchy, but don't ask me how!"

Organ Magazine: Thundering yet pin-point precise and laced with paranoia.

Bad Marmelade Magazine: Stark, heavy, acerbic, melodic.

Losing Today: The bastard love child of P.I.L. and the fractured minimalist electro punk of Suicide. Sparse, caustic and austere in texture.
A repetitive mind warping mantra that deceptively mainlines directly into the same noise pop dialect as once preached by 'Never Understand' era Jesus and Mary Chain to insidiously hit the point each and every time. Essential of course.
Subba-Cultcha: Demented, highly charged drum machine-d beats, the amped up melodies of Husker Du being fed through a broken processor possessed by Big Black being harnessed into one superb piece of rock n roll… Genius!

Skinnymag: As suffocating and intense as The Normal's electro anthem Warm Leatherette but with much extra width.

Artrocker Magazine: London's best kept secret at the minute if this single is anything to go by! Blistering rock action of a Detroit magnitude and that's only part of the story.

Playlouder: Beats coming through a 303 matched with guitar parts that are fast and repetitive, like the blur of a passing train, capped with querulous vocals that give a hard-to-place pop edge.

The New Thing: Another modern classic of ruthless guitars and uneasy electronics.


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Introducing; the new release by the ever enigmatic ddd.

The simply titled 'EP' consists of three prodding slabs of constructed industrial and melodic noise. You can file this one next to the likes of Sonic Youth, Einstuerzende Neubauten and Portishead's recent effort 'Third'.

Although the music is made with guitars, drum machine and the trumpet of guest Andrew Blick (One More Grain) the lines between the instruments are blurred and indecipherable. That's not to say this release is a mash of noise - the songs themselves densely structured with no guitar scratch & click unintended or left to chance, the sound is taut & precise.

ddd's music has traveled through Europe and soon the London based duo will be stepping across the Atlantic for their first US tour; it's been some journey. More used to playing to a small but dedicated group of followers ddd have been experiencing their first sell out shows in the capital of late and the buzz is sure to spread, especially with this summer’s appearance at the Offset festival alongside Wire.

This release also marks the launch of new record label Hansard Records. It will be limited to just 300 handmade, silk screened, numbered 10" records - as well as being available on itunes - if you decide to write about us thank you, if you don't we'll carry on regardless.


ddd - EP

Tracklisting:                                                                               
1 Drown                                                                                                                  
2 Concentration
3 Spiral                                                                                         

Cat No. HAN001