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Smart and moody rock with UK sensibilities, interesting structures, strong melodies and moving rhythms.

7 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Modern Rock, ROCK: Progressive Rock



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Coming into their own amidst innumerable bands attempting to ape the sound of their English predecessors from the 70's, Aberdeen City finds themselves comfortably straddling several genres. At home equally with feedback as they are with ethereal melodies, Aberdeen City's music is characterized and punctuated by dynamics. Influenced by Rock (Alt, Post, Prog, et. al.) their sound is not at all original. It is, like so many other bands today, an amalgamation of several styles. Yet Aberdeen City does one thing oft overlooked these days. They focus on songs. Some acoustic, some electronic, some mellow tearjerkers, some white hot dissonant rockers. Aberdeen City is unwilling and unequipped to try one style and listeners appreciate. Who will buy into this band? It has good hooks, interesting structures, clever production, vague lyrics, moodiness, exultation, strong melodies and moving rhythms.

Read a review of "We Learned By Watching" in UK fanzine Drowned In Sound:

It's not very often that something comes along, immediately grabs you by the ears and literally DEMANDS your attention, particularly when that "something" has crossed the Atlantic and admits to being influenced by quintessentially English artists - y'see when the Yanks get it wrong, they seem to be the masters of getting it wrong big time.

Therefore, it was with some trepidation that 'We Learned By Watching' met my CD player for the first time, and yet by the third stab of reverb from opener 'The Protagonist' , the two were on first name terms and have been ever since. This demo contains seven tracks in all, and I'm really not lying to you when I say there isn't a duff track among them.

The music throughout recalls 'Bends' -era Radiohead (i.e. when they actually had tunes ), the majestic melancholy of Sparklehorse and the desolate beauty of Interpol - check out the grandiose 'Final Bout' for a worthy successor to the 'Pol's 'NYC' , where Brad Parker's vocal is as haunting as a thousand Ian Curtis's hanging from Lincoln Cathedral's ceiling.

Not that 'We Learned By Watching' is totally shrouded in darkness. The sprightly 'Popular Music' recalls some of the Beach Boys more upbeat moments and without resorting to blatant plagiarism (are you listening, The Thrills ?), a fact that is cemented by the pop-goes-jazz tinkling of Chris McLaughlin and the unmistakeable sound of Parker's voice, which could be described as Michael Stipe without the goat's neigh finishing off every sentence, or Thom Yorke minus the histrionic mumbling.

'We Learned By Watching' is quite simply one of the most inspired collections of songs I've heard this year, and if it were a general release would be lauded as one of the debuts of 2003. The fact that Aberdeen City are currently without a record deal is as big a mystery in my book as the whereabouts of some Iraqi tyrant, although if 'We Learned By Watching' is anything to go by, that statistic will surely be more of a "when" rather than an "if".


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