North Atlantic Oscillation

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NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION:

"NAO's music makes me want to take driving lessons just so i can blow all my cash on an obscene foreign sports car which i then race into the face of the setting sun loaded while listening to it. This is considered, classy and ultimately the new cool....i want this. i want music thats been thought about. " - Guy Garvey, BBC 6 Music

"Their bright, friendly electronics and Brian Wilson harmonies suggest Scotland may have the beginnings of its own Animal Collective. Ones to watch." Metro

"They really are quite alarmingly good" - Drowned in Sound Single of the Week

"NAO may well be your favourite new band" - Artrocker

The band have been described as prog-pop and electro-rock, but really they just make music. The music has soaring harmonies and loud guitars and dreamy synths and heavy drums and strange effects and unexpected changes-of-mind.

NAO are the Scottish based trio of Sam Healy (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, synths, sax, percussion), Ben Martin (drums, percussion, programming) and Bill Walsh (bass, synth bass, vocals). They describe themselves as playing their instruments within a computerised wall of sound.

Eat Lights Become Lights:

"Eat Lights; Become Lights mix Krautrock rhythms and celestial drones to heavenly effect" - NME

Formed in the winter of 2007 by Neil Rudd (Guitars, Programming, Loops) & later joined by Rob Hyde (Drums) & Alex Baker (Bass)

Eat Lights; Become Lights share a deep love of classic German electronic acts of the 1970s, evoking classic kosmische bands but making the sound very much their own, creating an ...ever-changing synesthesic landscape of harmony and melody, feedback & drones, played against a driving motorik beat.

With the release of their debut single They Transmit in May 2008 on Enraptured Records, ELBL quickly gained critical praise from the likes of the NME, and record of the week slots from Manchester's Piccadilly Records and Leeds' Norman Records soon followed. The second single Klustered, released in April 2009, was equally well-received, and the band set to work on a long-player.
Gigging heavily since their conception, ELBL have steadily built up a reputation as a formidable live act, and the band have played several high-profile supports, including a sold-out tour with New York electronic pioneers Silver Apples as well as being championed by Stuart Maconie on 6 Music's Freak Zone and Andy Weatherall on BBC Radio 6 mix.

thelightshines started as a solo artist who started in Manchester in September 2006. In September 2008 thelightshines released 'The Space Between Souls' on Mind Exodus records as a split 7" vinyl with Kontakte. At the beginning of 2011 he multiplied into a band.

thelightshines mixes Indian folk music, psychedelic drones, 60s garage pop, shoegaze and lo-fi noise.