“Des oiseaux de nuit au chant hypnotique et transcendant”. Si la mélancolie ne semble pas faire bon ménage avec l’ambiance électrique et fiévreuse d’un live, les Indigo Birds nous prouvent pourtant qu’une telle osmose est possible !
Leurs mélodies fiévreuses et tourmentées, interprétées par une voix délicatement impure et naturellement profonde, vadrouillent sur une rythmique ciselée et énergique.
Ces rythmes imprimés par les quatres musiciens, qui s’échangent à tour de rôle les instruments, prennent leur inspiration dans un trip-hop perturbé par une énergie résolument punk, mais toujours éminemment poétique.
Une musique singulière, où peuvent se rencontrer simultanément Nick Cave, Portishead ou encore Arcade Fire.

Signal XY’s latest EP is aptly-titled “Response.” The five songs are unabashed rockers, delivering hooky arrangements, brooding melodies and unembarrassed riffage amid a wash of dramatic sonic textures. An analog rock-and-roll kick-in-the-ass in today’s unfortunate indie-rock climate of twee digital-chirping and self-important navel-gazing. This album is not just a response, it’s an antidote.

The band is comprised of veteran journeymen from the San Diego mathcore, Inland Empire stoner gloom and Long Beach dirt rock scenes. That melding of styles and meshing of sounds isn’t merely a throwback. Signal XY has re-contextualized their backgrounds in a stew of influences to create something altogether different. Throughout the EP, there are shades of the spookier side of post-punk (Joy Division, Christian Death, Sisters of Mercy), meaty desert rock guitars, and maybe even a hint of mid-90s post-grunge. However, “Response” clearly has a sound of its own. A brand new kind of heavy, heavy darkwave.

The universe Signal XY inhabits is a cosmos of the Illuminati, time travel, global demise and alien abduction, but bassist/singer Shawn Bathe doesn’t revel in cold sci-fi spaciness. The songs never shy away from the emotional core behind the subject matter, driven by the aggro, punk-rock backbeat of drummer Mik and the soaring solos/angular riffs of guitar-shredder Steve Luna.   

If you like your indie-rock to actually rock, “Response” is the answer.

Contact - info@dukesofnewyork.co.uk

Dukes of New York - the B-movie of music - pop/rock band from the UK, with an interest in guitars, bad/good movies, retrogaming and pizza... 

A long time ago, in a Suffolk town far, far away… Three different duo’s stepped into a magic wardrobe, and on the other side - the “Dukes of New York” were born! Well, that’s our story and we’re sticking to it… 

The Dukes are:
Philip Bradbrook - Bass
Michelle Major-Butler - Vox, Backing Vox
Will Hessey - Guitar, Vox
Zoe Bradbrook - Vox, Backing Vox

Our shiny new single is called “Poor You”. With Zoe singing the lead vocal, it’s a song about refusing to kowtow to the follies of the tame and the fake. It’s available on all digital download/streaming platforms such as Spotify, iTunes, and Apple Music, as well as our Bandcamp page.

It’s our fidgety relentlessness to not stay still that has led to playing festivals and gigs across the UK and Europe, radio airplay in the USA, and being involved in rather super projects with such acts as Electric Six and Eagles of Death Metal.

So keep your eyes out - your ears peeled - you never know where we’ll pop up next…

DoNY xx

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