Tim : Vocals / guitar

Ben : Synths / Samplers / Programming / Vocoder 

bio

"If music be the food of love then we seem to be spending more and more time stuffing ourselves with KFC. Maybe it's about time we sampled some of the more organic goods that The Shadow Project have to offer"

...This is not to say that The Shadow Project are all vegetarians. Hell no. In fact, only 16% of these little fella's avoid sloppy bacon sannies. However, this does mean that they don't sound like Razorlight (nor any other such Brit Award nominated tripe of the moment).

Maybe it's just The Shadow Project's innate ability to fabricate some of the most spine-tingling, beautiful and euphoric electro post-pop rock that it seems scandalous to avoid granting them international success. A band trying to be interesting, different and still be succeeding in retaining a melody worth listening to?! Holy Radiohead, Beck and Guillemots Batman!

Sure, there are tonnes of bands out there trying to make it big without rummaging through the Cream / Zep / Stones / Beatles / Clash / Roses cupboard. So what is it then that sets this band apart? Well for starters, they're actually good (always a bonus). No wait...they're not good...they're spectacular. Their music blips, crunches, stutters, refrains, explodes, engulfs and after simmering into silence, blows your mind. Similarities are often drawn to the doom rock of Mogwai or the chimes of Explosions In The Sky but these are lazy comparisons and miss the point. The Shadow Project lure the listener into a world of subtle beauty, souring emotion and intense noise which unlike their contemporaries always retains an instantly accessible edge and pop sensibility, an indie anthem moment of perfection which laces every riff, hook, drum machine, and fuzzy synth. They bring electronica, hip-hop style samples, walls of layered vocals and dance groove funk. They bring the post-rock party and having already played with the likes of Hot Chip, Mumm-Ra, The Longcut and Yndi Halda, it seems their time is fast approaching.

A six piece from the tractor trodden plains of Suffolk called The Shadow Project might just be the next Pink Floyd. In new music we trust? I trust The Shadow Project with my life.

 

 

"absolutely gorgeous." 

 

"Hark at this lot! Fabulous post rockist leanings pursued in the most dynamic of manners. a remarkably good band y'all."

"Fantastic tunes in a Mogwai stylee..weird sounds, samples, great lyrics..trippy as fook and we are happy to chew our lip and get all saucer eyed in their company."

- Bugbear Promotions (www.bugbearbookings.com).

 

"As atmospheric and anthemic as it is technically very nice, this is an uplifting journey into a twinkling world which can only be borne out of programming wizardry and good old-fashioned song-writing."

 

"(The shadow project)...will, whatever your incantation, make you ache inside, either for what you've lost, what you have or what you could have. Dip your toes in and join the meditation. Because this is pure bliss. "

 

- r*e*p*e*a*t fanzine (www.repeatfanzine.co.uk).

"I'm sure The Shadow Project would be happy to simply win the award for looking the hippest, but the problem is that they also sound amazing."

"The Shadow Project has made this project uniquely their own. At a time where post-rock is getting a depressing influx of similar instrumental bands, this band stands out as something worth listening to."

- Mike Saunders, BBC Norfolk.

"The Shadow Project made us sit up and take note..tuneful, energetic and eccentric, ambient in a rock way. Their Voices EP is available online, and is selling out. Theyre very good, and should go a long way. Hope so."

- Optimum Impact Fanzine (www.optimumimpact.co.uk).

"Headlining we have the quite remarkable The Shadow Project bringing what they describe as ambient, experimental electronica to the party. Sounds interesting already but we reckon it's a hell of a lot more than that. You will be blown away..."

"We love this. It's brilliant. Starts off paranoid and insular and ends up uplifting and huge. Kind of Purple Rain meets Rothko. Phew!"

- Turning Worm Promotions (www.turning-worm.co.uk .

"Reared and engineered in the Suffolk outback, The Shadow Project are able to capture the less-than-idyllic subtleties of a claustrophobic city mixed with a yearning for wide open spaces into just over three-quarters-of-an-hour's worth of mind-bogglingly gorgeous music."

 

"Fiercely creative, technologically minded... enough melodic input and atmosphere to keep your attention... You will like this band!"

 

"As mesmeric as any exponents of the much-maligned post-rock genre you care to mention, A Beauty To Fight For bleeds ambition, despair and an ultimate desire to push itself one step further with every passing moment."

- www.DrownedinSound.com.

"Ambient sensuality...vivid and intensely robust. Compelling and enthralling, haunting and giddy...they pull their audience with them into their dynamic electronica world"

- Erica Dupuy, Boomerang Magazine.

"(the shadow project) have learnt the art of making post rock interesting and are very good."

- Fat Controller Promotions.

"The best thing musically to come out of East Anglia for a long time."

- Ken Bates, ICRFM.