isthisusernametaken
(Seaton Delaval)
Monday 10 Oct 2022, 3:33pm
Hi,
We are The Looks Department, and we do instrumental electronic-y/prog/synth-rock sort of stuff... I'm not even sure what it would be genre-wise, but imagine an unholy mixture of Cardiacs, Andrew W.K., Devin Townsend and MOSAIC.WAV if they took turns snorting lines of floor sweepings from the footwell of a 2001 Corsa before entering the studio. Currently it's just three of us and it's maybe a tad optimistic to call it a band just yet but it's getting there.
Here's some demos on soundcloud, and there's plenty more where that came from:
https://soundcloud.com/lewispatterson/sets/playlist-22
Ideally we're after:
- A second lead guitarist who can double up/harmonise the lead parts, as well as thicken up some of the other bits.
- a keyboard player - a few bits of the songs are programmed MIDI that may not even be physically playable, but there's certainly enough humanly possible stuff there too. If you own a keytar then that's a bonus.
- a drummer: kinda optional, there's going to be a lot of backing tracks in all likelihood (for synths and samples) so we could always just do the drums that way. But real drums might make it feel more like a proper full band experience.
It's the very early stages of the band right now - all the music is there but we're a long way from gig-ready, still throwing around half-baked ideas about smoke machines and lights and such. The intention is to focus a decent amount on the non-music side of things too - especially with the music being instrumental I think it'd just feel incomplete somehow if it was just three blokes and a drum machine performing it. We're after something a bit more maximalist and intense (though probably a lot more polarising as a result). And for as much of the music to be live as opposed to tapes too.
Not arsed about age, gender or anything like that, just as long as you have a willingness to learn and play the stuff.
If all this sounds like your sort of thing then sling a message my way and I'll get back hopefully pretty quickly. I check my messages on here every couple of days or so.
Thanks,
Lewis