专辑简介

Manchester indie-dance duo Bulbs of Held combine the talents of sound designer / mixologist Paul Bardsley, and guitarist / vocalist Chris Plack. Bardsley and Plack have worked with sound for all their adult lives, but from strikingly different perspectives. Bardsley spent much of the last decade disc jockeying in London, Berlin, Manchester, Teeside and Ibiza, as well as working in audio post-production studios and on independent films as a sound designer following a sound and media degree. Bardsley now works as an Audiology Technician. Plack rocked out in Brighton indie guitar bands Elysium and Readers Wives during the 90s and 00s, before settling down to a successful academic career in hearing science. Indeed, Plack is one of the world’s leading psychoacousticians, and is currently Professor of Audiology at the University of Manchester. It was in Manchester that a chance meeting between the two led to an exchange of tracks and a cunning plan. Their name comes from a type of chemical connection between nerve cells in the auditory brain, and appropriately their debut EP is a cerebral fusion of disco, electronica, house, trip-hop, indie, and folk. Their love of psychoacoustics and the infinite possibilities of auditory perception inspire their music, which is designed to reach the hair cells that other bands cannot reach. Soulenalle is the dreamy sound of disco through the ears of someone collapsed in the corner, struggling to maintain focus. Last Day is an electro-folk apocalypse, heavy on mandolins and crashing beats. The ghostly guitar harmonics and bit-crushed effects of Your Teas Your Dinner ooze hidden menace, as the narrator contemplates a life of isolation and false security. Transporter is an undanceable dance track based on a meld of classical guitar riffs in 7:4 time. Finally, Descending is a trip-hop ode to love in the silicon age, with a lilting fingerstyle guitar.