Cinematics

Cinematics

http://www.thecinematics.com/
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The Cinematics are a silver-screen band of neon conquistadors. Love & Terror is the highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed Strange Education, the band’s 2007 debut. After extensive touring in the UK, USA and Europe as well as supporting acts such as Snow Patrol, Editors and We are Scientists, the band came back to Glasgow raring to start work on the second outing. However all was not well in the machinations behind the scenes. The demise of TVT, the band’s first record label, and the departure of guitarist Ramsay Miller left two not easily filled holes at the heart of the band. But the Cinematics have never been shy of a challenge, and this is how Love & Terror came to be. It only took one meeting to know that new guitarist Larry Reid had great taste in trainers and had to join the band. Almost immediately the songs started pouring out. As the writing gathered momentum, the band signed a new deal with The Orchard, and order, for the most part, was restored. Now it’s time for The Cinematics to realize their potential with a truly honest recording of our times.

As Reid, who also produced the new record, (a very ambitious and respectable task for a new member of the band to take on), states on their blog: ‘I’m still wary, though, of the latest “band of the people” who cynically attempt to use street-politics to create a brand and sell records. Outright protest songs are just too crude for my taste, but songs that deal with issues in a tender, personal way can be very moving.’ This is what makes the new album’s subject matter and timing so perfect as it was written with an uncanny sincerity before the doom and gloom was being driven through our skulls by a trigger happy media. Does this band actually possess psychic abilities or are they just four lads who know how to truly write music for the people?

Artistically, Love & Terror is an album like no other. There are no record label influenced singles which are juxtaposed to the body of work; everything has its place. Every single note, production quirk and piece of artwork has been created by the band whilst juggling the requirements of everyday living. This is where the essence of the album lies. Four guys wondering what the hell is going on, trying to make sense of it all the only way they know how: by embracing both the Love and the Terror of living in the new reality.
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