Diagrams - The Magnet Liverpool - Friday 16 March
DIAGRAMS with support from YETI LANE and NINETAILS
Tickets £6.50 from Probe and Ticketline
Having released their debut EP 'Diagrams' last year the band finally released their debut album 'Black Lights' on the 16th January on Full Time Hobby (The Leisure Society, Erland & The Carnival, Let's Wrestle). DIAGRAMS is the new project of Sam Genders formerly of the fantastic Tunng who we last saw in 2010 with their album ...And Then We Saw Land, it promises to be a great show. ‘Black Light’ debut album released 16th January 2012 on FULL TIME HOBBY. “Broadcast remapped by James Blake” NME “like Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls in a feathery group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion” Guardian Guide ‘Single of the Week.’
Diagrams may be an unfamiliar name, but the voice will be instantly recognisable: this is the new project of Sam Genders, former co-frontman and songwriter of experimental folkies Tunng.
A solo project of sorts, Diagrams sees Genders working with a rolling cast of collaborators including Danyal Dhondy (string arrangements), Laura Hocking (vocals), Hannah Peel (backing vocals and trombone) and drummers Matt McKenzie and Tom Marsh. Live it expands to an all conquering nine-piece who made their debut to an ecstatically full tent at this year’s End Of The Road festival. It’s named Diagrams for the defining sound of clean, sharp production and programming Genders has cooked up with co-producer Mark Brydon.
“I feel like this music is less lo-fi than the music I’ve made in the past,” says Genders. “It’s quite precise and angular in places, so Diagrams felt perfect.” That idea extends to Diagrams’s visual side too: graphic artist Chrissie Abbott has created Flatland-inspired imagery incorporating clean lines and polygons.
The title, Black Light, sums up Genders’s experience: “I like the idea that good and bad or dark and light aren’t always so clear. Sometimes the most difficult experiences can lead to the best things in life. Life is full of good and bad, dark and light. That’s just how it is.”
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