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"Psychedelic Garage Rock recorded under the stairs!" (Dan Hegarty RTE2FM)

"Dublin-based, The Northern Drones specialise in ramshackle, headspinning psych-ramalama with a grand sense of fecklessness to the sound. Their self-titled debut album was apparently recorded in a cubbyhole under a set of stairs and sounds all the better for it". (Jim Carroll Irish Times)

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"There's more than enough perfect music around," say The Northern Drones in the note that accompanies this Dublin-based band's new CD. Well, they're not wrong. Imperfections make things interesting. And although the production here is garagey and the sound is downright anorexic, somehow that suits the music. Mainly recorded live in the studio (or the garage), The Northern Drones sound like the Flamin' Groovies having a hallucenogenic-enhanced jam, circa 1967 - although I'm not sure if the sixties garage thing they've got going here is intentional, or if it's just the result of the non-production. For all I know, the band might actually want to sound like U2.

Still, however they got there, the band's fuzztone clang and clatter has a stripped-down charm. The proto-psychedelic spacey vocals, way down in the mix, sound like another instrument rather than a focal point - although, again, I'm not sure if it's supposed to be that way, or if someone just forgot to shove the vocal channel fader up. The result is an album that's a bit like a colouring book that hasn't been coloured in yet. I can fill in my own colours, but I have no idea if they'll be the same as the way the band would do it. Still, you know - it's interesting like that.

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Reverberation with The Northern Drones - An Interview


Iniciando mais uma semana aqui no TBTCI transpirando alucinações e viagens psicodélicas, uma cortesia dos irlandeses do The Northern Drones.

Se a função do TBTCI é conduzir vocês a uma viagem ao submundo dos bons sons, certamente uma das trilhas é o Northern Drones.

Psych moderno, altas dosagens de Kraut, leia-se Neu! e acordes repetidos a exaustão até que o ouvinte adentre a um estado de euforia cadenciada, o Northern Drones leva a risca seu nome, e sua discografia é a iniciação a catarse cíclica.

Aqui não há escapatória, uma vez iniciado, eternamente devoto.


***** Interview with The Northern Drones *****


1. When did The Northern Drones start, tell us about the history...
It was 2008 before we started to put something together, but myself and Steve had been playing on and off for about five years before that. We started out fucking around with the blues and the songs gradually became closer to what they are today, more hypnotic and droney. Maybe the name came before the drones or the drones came before the name, I can’t remember.

Inga played bass. Sometimes she still does. So did John. Other people played too, some for a few songs, some for a few gigs and some just for a few hours over a few beers. It’s good to keep things loose.

We released the ‘Fanfare Meltdown’ album in 2009 with a poet from Seattle called Kim Acrylic. After that the first Northern Drones record came out in 2010, followed by ‘One Hundred Eyes’ and ‘High Sky’ in the following two years. ‘Psychic Waves’ is our latest album, released this year.

2. Who are your influences?
Rockers, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Velvet Underground, Bukka White, The Rutles…different people in the band are into different things - we agree on certain things and disagree on others when it comes to influences but some things you can’t argue with.

3. Make a list of 5 albums of all time.
Here are mine, today…

The Who – Sell Out
The Specials – The Specials
Teenage Fanclub – Songs From Northern Britain
Pixies – Trompe Le Monde
Guided By Voices - Propeller


4. How do you feel playing live?
It’s like going to work, but doing a job you love. We play in darkness, with strobes and projected visuals. The band isn’t important, only the noise it makes. No-one can see who we are.

5. How do you describe the northern drones sounds?
Drones. Drums. Guitars.

6. Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Wherever we set up our equipment, we turn it into a studio. We don’t use a traditional recording studio and we don’t pay for someone to record our albums. We use our own gear and our own digital 8-track. We press record, then we play, and we release everything ourselves. We do it all, from recording to printing. Keeps costs down.

7. Which new bands do you recommend?
Ex Hex are great. The Altered Hours too. The Vincent(s). Wild Rocket. The Pox Men, Morning Veils and September Girls

8. Which bands would you like to make a cover version?
The Bangles

9. What’s plan for future?
Release records

10. Any parting words?
Anyone want to fly us over to play Brazil?
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RTÉ Music: DAN HEGARTY WITH THE NORTHERN DRONES IN THE 2FM STUDIO SESSION

The Northern Drones began life as the main culprits in an unplanned jamming session at a Dun Laoghaire college gig in 2005 (but as the name suggests they come from further north-(Belfast, Donegal and Germany)
Over the next few years they began recording their sessions, and they provided the music for Seattle poet Kim Acrylic’s 2009 album ‘Fanfare Meltdown’.
Further support from across the Atlantic encouraged the band to keep recording and playing occasional gigs around Dublin and London, but the main drive of the Drones was jamming and recording, often with many others who happened to turn up to their city-centre lock-up under the stairs.
Having no appetite for album lunches, they quietly released their not-so-quiet self-titled album in late 2010. Due to its lo-fi sound, it was a major surprise when Dan Hegarty gave it its first airplay.
The next planned gig is Holy Thursday in Twisted Pepper, but the next album is due to be released in the next month or so. An Australian radio station is stating that “psyche is the new folk and folk is the new funk” but the Drones don’t give a folk.
Drums-Justin McDaid, guitar/voc-Steve Lowe, bass-Inga Eichler.



Review: The Northern Drones – Northern Drones
Words: Sean Noone

Article Published: October 5, 2011
Review: The Northern Drones – Northern Drones
Words: Sean Noone

Article Published: October 5, 2011

In the Dublin music scene, its not easy to sneak in under the radar. Bands are named the ‘next big thing’ before they’ve even played live where others are ‘destined for a number one’ (or whatever the equivalent is in these download days) before they’ve even seen a studio. The Northern Drones have, somehow avoided both and have toured and recorded for a while without the hype machine, or indeed The Hype Machine, catching on. And, while its nice to come across some top quality music without the hype, you can’t help but feel that they deserve it so much more than so many others.

This album, their eponymous debut, is very good. It’s powerful, it’s inventive, it’s divisive perhaps but it sure doesn’t sound like anyone else. Ever-present on the album is the jangling guitars (or perhaps the ‘northern drone’ of which they speak) and the rather muted vocals which give it a rather claustrophobic feel. It was recorded under a stairs, after all. Lyrics are scarce and not particularly decipherable when present but this is not an issue as the guitars and percussion (especially the cymbals) are dominant throughout.
The one bum-note on this fine indie-rock effort the third track, ‘Full Moon Killer’. It seems slightly jumbled and seems to be stepping on its own toes quite a bit. Momentum is recovered quickly, though, with the following tracks, ‘Northern Drone’ and the powerful ‘Solid Waste’.

Later in the album, specifically with ‘Many Ways’ and ‘Make a Deal’ The Northern Drones manage a rare feat. They have produced songs that are of, shall we say, ambitious length but, somehow, never feel laborious nor self-indulgent. ‘Enemy’, however, clocking in at just over three minutes, seems like a short sharp shock (just like the one you’ll get towards the end of the song when you’ll think your mp3 player is going to explode).

There is one downside to this album however, in that the tracks start to feel a bit ‘same-y’ come the end. If something a bit slower or quieter were thrown somewhere in the running time, it would do the album the world of good. For now, though, it’s still a cut above the rest.

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