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THIS THEORY OF STATIC: ELECTRICITY
Electricity: (from the Greek word elektron, meaning amber, and finally from New Latin electricus, "amber-like") is a general term that encompasses a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge.
Electricity: The title of the new album from This Theory Of Static. The band that has not-so-quietly made its presence felt on live stages across New Zealand since March 2008. And the band that is about to blow the fuses of the NZ rock scene with this, it's 3rd album released through Wellington Label Creepshow Productions.
It may be only their 3rd full length effort in 10 years, but it feels more like their first according to singer/guitarist and founding member Dean Young who up until June 2007, was the band's sole member.
"The input, time, energy and enthusiasm of Luke, [Hale - drums] Jerome, [Buckleigh - Guitar] Matt, [Burling - Bass] and Adam, [Vink, who provided synth tracks to the record] for the project as a whole has been amazing. so it truely has been a real band effort."
Electricity is an expansive and at times epic listen. Each track makes it's mark with a production sound that belies it's relatively humble project studio roots, with Young recording the lot at his studio in West Auckland. "It was important to me to do justice to these huge songs with an equally big production."
From the spacey electronica-infused intro of “Set The Controls” to the epic “Seven is Exploding” the dark plundering stomp of “Resurrection Song” and the somber yet powerful first single “In Absentia” the album explores themes of self awareness, deceit and conspiracy and relationships.
This Theory of Static - Electricity. 2009
About
It was an August day in 1998 that the “project” began.
Singer/Guitarist Dean Young had just walked away from his band of some 5 years in Rotorua for the bright lights, big city of Auckland with one singular vision.
“I wanted to set up a small studio and create this ‘band’ the idea being, I would write and record everything myself and eventually a live band would grow out of it.” says Young.
So with guitar, drum machine and Roland 8 track digital workstation in hand, ‘breathingunderwater’ was born.
December 2007. It is almost 10 years, 3 EP’s, 2 albums and one name-change later. Young, joined by guitarist Jerome Buckleigh, Bassist Matt Burling, Drummer Luke Hale and Guitarist/Keyboardist Adam Vink are holed up in a small Devonport recording studio cutting the drum tracks for the band’s 3rd album, “Electricity”. It’s the 2nd under the name “This Theory of Static” but the first to feature musicians other than Young himself.
In 2006 Young ran into old friend Jerome Buckleigh at the New Zealand Music Awards and started to put into motion ideas that the two had shared months and years earlier on similar meetings. From there the live band grew around the nucleus of Young and Buckleigh, and while Young was finishing up 2006’s “R[evolve]” album, he was already writing with an eye to the future.
“R[evolve] was very much me just feeling out a new way of recording, [with Pro Tools] it was also the end of breathingunderwater as I had known it and the start of something new. In more ways than one.“
It was an American emo band with the name “breathing underwater” who prompted Young to change the band’s moniker.
“I could have fought it, but I just felt like, ‘shit – can I be bothered?’ Changing the name was I guess a way for me to shed some skin and start anew, especially with the live thing coming into play, it just felt like it was the right thing to do.”
Although 3rd guitarist/Keyboardist Adam Vink left the band early on to persue the formation of his own project, the nucleus of Young Buckleigh, Burling and Hale remain. And together, hit the live scene in March of 2008 to an overwhelmingly positive response from audiences across the North Island.
Having well and truly road tested the material, in September 2008, the foursome signed with Wellington label Creepshow Productions who will release the band's new album. An album some 20 months in the making in early 2009.
That album is called “Electricity.”
From the get go, the spacey electronica-infused intro of “Set The Controls” sets the scene for what follows – a hours worth of superbly crafted soaring alt-rock. From the epic “Seven is Exploding” the somber yet powerful “In Absentia” the dark brooding stomp of “Resurrection Song” and the monolithic “Planets Align” the album explores themes of self awareness, deceit and conspiracy, relationships, loss and differing perspectives.
So why “Electricity”?
“At a deeper level we are at our core, energy systems interacting with each other and our environment.” It is how we interact with, and react to each other that I find fascinating.”
This Theory of Static – The new album: Electricity is out though Creepshow Productions March 1 2009.
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