Ac Acoustics

Arguably Now A Spent Force Ac Acoustics Briefly Flirted With A Breakthrough In The Mid-Late 1990s. They Were Widely Championed By The Music Press And By Peers Such As Placebo. At Their Peak They Combined Dense Fuzz-Heavy Riffage With Cryptic Poetic Lyrics Before Later Introducing Keyboards And Moving Into A Sparser More Repetition-Based Direction. Initially They Owed A Debt To The Jesus And Mary Chain - Blending Furious White-Noise With Early Pavement-Style Experimentation And Augmenting Their Two Guitar Bass And Drums Instrumentation With Saxophones And Violins. Their First Release Was The 1992 Five Track Wrist Eye Demo Notable Also For Featuring Gerard Love From Teenage Fanclub On Backing Vocals. The Demo Gained Them A Recording Contract With The Independent Label Elemental Records Who Released Their Debut Single Sweatlodge/MV In 1993. At This Time Despite Their Relative Obscurity They Displayed An Aptitude For Getting On The Bill At Relatively High Profile Gigs And Opened For PJ Harvey Spacemen 3 And The Jesus Lizard Amongst Others. In 1994 The Band's Debut Album Able Treasury Was Released. Demonstrating A Tighter Sound It Was Also Notable For Its Unusual Song Titles. Shortly After This Release Mark Raine Replaced Roger Ward On Guitar And The Band Began To Move In A Rockier Less Feedback-Drenched Direction. This Culminated In The 1997 Release Of The Band's Masterpiece Victory Parts And Gigs With Embrace Stereophonics DEUS As Well As A Couple Of Tours With Placebo. The Band's Acumen And Wall-Of-Noise Approach Garnered Them Sponsorship From Marshall Amplifiers. Despite The Accolades For Victory Parts In The Music Press Ac Acoustics Remained A Cult Act. They Left Elemental And Signed With Yoyo Recordings Releasing The EPs Like Ribbons And She's With Stars. They Parted With Yoyo In 2000 And Moved To Cooking Vinyl Releasing A Further EP Crush Continuing The Placebo Connection Thanks To Backing Vocal Contributions From Brian Molko . The Band's Line-Up Was Augmented By A Keyboardist Who Had Joined The Band As A Roadie And Two Further Albums Understanding Music And O Followed The Latter Being Completed In A Mere Ten Days. The Band Have Always Preferred To Be Referred To In Lower Case Typography. read less