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Pops, Fizzes and Clicks.
Country:	United Kingdom
Last Login:	May 19, 2008 (595 days back)

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POPS, CLICKS & MELTED CIRCUITS Based in East London & North Devon, UK, renfro are Tim Branney and Atom James Draper. Tim sings the songs and Atom sources found-sounds. Together they write words and make music from recorded fragments. Renfro formed in late 2005, born from a mutual love of electronic music and West-Coast vocal harmonies. Tim & Atom like the avant-garde, but often find themselves wanting to sing along too. They enjoy Low and Midlake as much as they do Tod Dockstader and William Basinski, so their idea is to meld experimental electronic musical techniques with dream-pop songwriting. Early on, whilst waving microphones at elephant seals in Santa Cruz, Ca., they also wondered why pop music couldn't be made using a soundtrack of field recordings and electro-acoustic manipulations. Those same elephant seals ended up joining a sonic cast that includes malfunctioning leads, NASA feeds from deep space, tapped teeth, burning plastic (a credit card sacrifice), a host of wild animals and numerous controlled bursts of static & distortion. Words are also important to renfro, and they try to remain optimistic in the face of the political and social realities of modern life. Modernity can be a tough gig, after all. In their lyrics renfro like to explore the poetics of isolation, difference and collapse. For guidance they binge on film, literature and assorted junk culture. Mastered by Kramer (producer of Low, Dot Allison, Robert Wyatt etc.) their already widely acclaimed debut album, 'Mathematics', finds lushly layered vocals residing amongst twinkling tunes that float on a sea of pops, clicks and melted circuits. A kind of electronic-alternative-gospel-folk for the 21st Century. Sometimes it's melancholy, and sometimes it chuckles quietly in the corner. Renfro are interested in making music that embraces the future, rather than bathing in nostalgia for a retro-electro past. They believe that you can, and indeed that in 2008 you should make pop songs from the sound of technology breaking down. Pre-Order 'Mathematics': Amazon.com - Mathematics .. Amazon.co.uk - Mathematics .. pdis (Japan) - Mathematics.. MAILING LIST Please sign up to be kept up to date with the latest renfro news, releases and flurries of activity: required
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Music: Member Since: 7/27/2007 Band Members: Releases: 16-06-08: 'Mathematics' (album) Digipack CD + Digital "Masterpiece....album of the month" ( Inpartmaint.com ) "Brilliant and original songs. One might compare them to a sample–rich merger of Low and Portishead, but that would not do justice to the distinctive sound that renfro have created for themselves." ( YME.COM ) "Should stake Renfro’s place atop the lofty mountains of avant-garde electronic pop without a doubt."( Earz Magazine ) "Comparable to the more subtle elements used on Thom Yorke’s solo release, 'The Eraser', innovative, serene electronic music that explores the poetic." ( Exclaim! Magazine ) “A wonderful world of music...magical....amazing sounds” (Transform @ Global Vortex Radio ) "Sweetly beguiling yet hurting and distant. Arrestingly fragile....is going to break a fair few hearts once it escapes on to the more clued up hi-fi’s of the record buying community” ( Losing Today - The Indie Music Magazine ) "Really Beautiful and interesting new music, grabs you from the first hearing" (Apostolos Varnas @ Soul Magazine ) Influences: Susanna and The Magical Orchestra - Midlake - Paul Wirkus - Elizabeth Fraser - Bon Iver - Jan Jelinek - Low - Juana Molina - Iron and Wine - AGF/Laub - Joan As Policewoman - Fennesz - Sufjan Stevens - Laura Nyro - Vladislav Delay - Jon Hassell - Robert Wyatt - Joanna Newsom - Oval - Phoenix - Barbara Morgenstern - St. Vincent - Kate Bush - Eliane Radigue - Thom Yorke - Henryk Mikolaj Górecki - Burial - Smokey Robinson - Arvo Pärt - Kraftwerk - Mathematiques Modernes - Bjork - Igor Stravinsky - Matmos - Nico - Pole - The Books - Apparat - David Crosby (+ Stills & Nash, but not Young) - Deathprod - The Cinematic Orchestra - Samadhisound - Colder - Spacek - Aqualung - Laurie Anderson - Animal Collective - Rickie Lee Jones - Tod Dockstader - Broadcast - Kings of Convenience - M83 - Jean-Marc WEBER - King Creosote - William Basinski - Mark Hollis - Radian - John Taverner - Adem - Lali Puna - Holger Czukay - Dntel - Scritti Politti - Colleen - Craig Armstrong - Judee Sill Bela Tarr - Stanley Kubrick - Werner Herzog - Guy Maddin - David Lynch - Jim Jarmusch - Krzysztof Kieslowski - Alfred Hitchcock - Michelangelo Antonioni - Alain Resnais - Joel Coen - Andrei Tarkovsky - Terry Gilliam - Gus Van Sant - Ilya Khrzhanovsky - Billy Wilder - Godfrey Reggio David Foster Wallace - Thomas Pynchon - George Saunders - W. G. Sebald - Don DeLillo - Michel Tournier - Laura Albert/J.T. LeRoy - Rick Bass - Cormac McCarthy - Bruce Chatwin - Stephen Millhauser - Chris Bachelder - John Banville - Colson Whitehead - J.M. Coetzee - William Goyen Sounds Like: "A collection of discoveries and manipulations that create a collage of sounds that delicately encases the listener. Renfro meld eclectic elements that produce dreamy, serene down-tempo with a multitude of components to absorb. The result is seemingly complex and layered sounds that also have simplicity. One spin of the album offers an airy, atmospheric vibe but subsequent listens have you deconstructing each individual noise, glitch and blip. Combine that with the gentle vocals of Branney and you have distinctive, innovative, serene electronic music that explores the poetic." (Ashley Hampson in Exclaim! Magazine ) "Excellent music - a great album" (Jon Tye - Lo Recordings ) "Shit, I love renfro!" ( POPULOUS - Morr Music) “Delicately bruised sensitive signatures coaxed to life by twinklesome snow-globe affected electronics and softly sighed deliveries... sweetly beguiling yet hurting and distant.” ( Losing Today - The Indie Music Magazine ) “Wow. Brilliant f***ing songs” ( Kramer - producer of Low, Robert Wyatt, Dot Allison, Galaxie 500 etc.) “Really amazing stuff... like Murcof with vocals, amazing vocals at that” (Araya - Benbecula Records ) "Awesome...great music, like a raindrop in slow motion" (Dave Farrer - Kokopelli (Music) UK Limited ) “Amazing - like Sigur Ros meeting the Postal Service and everything working out just fine” ( CombatDave ) "Atom and Tim make the kind of music that makes a lot of sense under the stars or under silky eiderdown. Coming on like a comedown, renfro are very chilled out. Gentle hushed vocals breathe out over "pops, fizzes and clicks." The backbeat sometimes sounds like a malfunctioning dolphin and sometimes like chinking, chiming broken glass. The atmosphere created sounds like a church from the future, all hushed reverence and neutral hues - it's all very lovely. Renfro make beautiful sombre sounds, perfect for chilling out to with a mug of tea and a duvet." (James Lawrenson on clickmusic.com ) “Music so great that I can't stop listening!” (AftervisionProject - SoFarUnknown.Records) “So achingly beautiful - the words, the minimalism, glitches, blips are pieced into perfect euphony” ( Jean Sunwoo ) “Fantastic. The lyrics are intelligent and interesting, the samples are clever and original, and the vocals are haunting and sweet. No doubt renfro will be a household name in time.” (bug @ UNEQProductions.com ) “Your music really touched my heart deeply” ( Ultimae Records ) “I really love your stuff” ( Kate Havnevik - Universal Records USA) “Amazing - 'Illuminations' has to be the most intricately-lushly, beautiful piece of music I've heard in ages, absolutely gorgeous and emotional.” ( Chloë March , Powderkeg Records) "Very very nice music!" ( b. fleischmann - Morr Music) "You will doubtlessly find yourself playing it over and over again trying to absorb all of the delicate nuances that make up the many layers of their sound, and as peculiar as these elements may seem, it all comes together quite smoothly to create some brilliant and original songs. 'Broken Little Pieces' is very much characteristic of their unique sound, using a recording of a NASA shuttle take-off for the opening, a distorted shortwave radio signal for the irresistible percussion, and a background atmosphere created from a live-feed of deep space. The truly remarkable part is that you would never guess the source of their sound. You do not feel like you are listening to a rocket take off or a radio crackle. What you get is high quality music with an extremely fresh feel to it. With all the effort that renfro put into coming up with new sounds, it is impressive that lyrics are as interesting and complex as they are. On top of this, Branney offers vocals that are incredibly gentle, and perfectly suit the thoughtful lyrics and dreamy electronica." ( YME.COM ) Record Label: Meltwater Records Type of Label: Indie
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Apologies for the recent radio silence - it's been an exciting but hectic time here at renfro HQ - but this is where we can finally reveal what we've been up to these past months, and answer some of t... Posted by renfro on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:44:00 PST
New Song: Telescope
Greetings all,Firstly, many, many thanks for all the great messages of support following our MySpace death and subsequent rebirth on this page back at the start of November. Seems our friend list made... Posted by renfro on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:07:00 PST
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Hello, Welcome to the second of our infrequent blog entries. We hope it finds you well. We have now completed the music for all of the songs on the album 'mathematics', which is very excitin... Posted by renfro on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:24:00 PST
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