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About Group

Start And Complete


There are many surprising things indeed to be discovered in the course of listening to “Start and Complete”, the new album from About Group, but perhaps none more so than the beautifully unorthodox genesis of the band itself.

Comprising Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Charles Hayward (This Heat), John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized) and Pat Thomas, who has played with the likes of Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley and others, the band originally formed to make a record of improvised music for the Treader label in 2009, having never played together as a whole before the day it took them to make their first album. After a clutch of live performances (supporting Gang Gang Dance, playing Ornette Coleman’s Meltdown Festival and even Glastonbury, among others) they regrouped to record this album.

Start And Complete is the highly engaging result; recorded in one day at Abbey Road, Studio 2, and mixed over three days on Conny Plank’s old desk, at Mark Ralph’s London studio. The songs were written by Taylor over the last few years and some, but not all of them, were given out as a CD in piano/vocal demo form for the other members of the group to hear a few days before the studio date. The idea was that no one band member would know the songs well enough to have specific parts, or be prevented from playing something like the first ideas that came into their head.

Tracklist
  • 01. Married To The Sea (a)
    02. Dont Worry
    03. With Each New Day
    04. Repair Man
    05. Lay Me Down
    06. A Perspective
    07. There's A Way To End This Run Of Doubt
    08. A Sinking Song
    09. Nothing But Words
    10. You're No Good
    11. Rough And Smooth
    12. Start And Complete
    13. Dreamt I Saw You Late Last Night
    14. Married To the Sea (b)

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