The Flies Albums Back Catalogue Now Available on CD & Vinyl Direct

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"Dark, dirty, drugged and downright sexy 'The Flies' manage to walk a very thin line between tried and tested nights of mid-nineties house party excess' and an incredible talent to draw a very relevant present into a fast approaching future." 
 Gigwise

"All Too Human is brazenly sexual and painfully beautiful in equal measure. As albums become more and more scarce, it is reassuring to hear such a daringly creative LP as this." BBC.CO.UK

"One of 2007's most adventurous and finest debuts" 
 THE GUARDIAN

"Captivating" 
  THE INDEPENDENT

"Like The Velvets on a David Lynch set." 
  NME

"In a world of Kaiser Chiefs, James Blunts and Hard Fi's, The Flies have injected a breath of fresh air into music...the best UK debut album of the year."  
XFM

"This album is tailor made for dark alley dwelling delinquents and their equally dark desires. Sultry and sordid crooning boosted sounds that are perfect for both those between the sheets or between a rock and a hard place. Whatever situation you're in, be it between the sheets or two sheets to the wind, this LP will appropriately haunt you, having stirred that deeply buried inner slither of desire of yours from the first listen."
 Glasswerk



"I can honestly say there is nothing else quite like this out there in our cosmos, its incredible originality is only matched by its mesmerising allure and polished perfection.Whether smoking yourself horizontal or vertical and rising, whether entering or about to be entered, this is the album to do it to."  
 ENTERTAINMENTFOCUS.COM

"If talent alone decided the music chart positions, then The Flies would easily hold the record for being top of the charts for the longest time"   
WELIKECLUBBING.COM

"The Flies sound is what the music industry has desperately been begging for since the uprise of soft indie music, which produced an overflow of copycat substandard groups. We are still in the hangover era of The Libertines, so it's about time that someone shook things up a bit. Thank God someone has had the balls to do it!"  
 MUSIC-NEWS.COM

"All Too Human is a dark, brooding and classy collection that deserves to be heard" ENTERTAINMENTMANCHESTER.COM


"Sounds like one of the classics that should have been in everyone's collection for the past thirty years...[The Flies] come across as a gloriously spaced out version of The Doors.  
SUBBACULTCHA

"A darkly haunting but timelessly beautiful collection of songs"
   SOUNDFREAK.CO.UK

Guardian

The Bristol Sound's not dead, it's just chilling out. Or, in the case of this debut from The Flies, creeping around the seedier back- streets in search of sensual gratification. A trio combining the talents of production duo Bob Locke and Tim Norfolk (best known for their work with Massive Attack and Goldfrapp) with the sly crooning of vocalist Sean Cook, The Flies make sensuous, stealthy music that emulates the depth and mood of Sixties influences like Roy Orbison and The Shangri-Las, within the context of modern production. The results can be captivating, with echoes of Peggy Lee's "Fever" in the sparse pulse of "Walking On the Sand", and woodwind and marimba combining to sultry effect on the lilting samba "The Temptress". Cook's lyrics evoke the eager torture of sexual addiction, demands eternally unsatisfied in tracks such as "High" and "My Pleasure", while elsewhere he cruelly wields love like a weapon in "Chills" and "No Shame". His attitude is probably best summed up in a line from "We Began", when he claims that "love is a wound we inflict": in which sense, All Too Human is a sort of audio Ai No Corrida.