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Biography
Aereogramme release their second full length lp in spring 2003. Sleep and Release will surprise those new to the band and will delight and confound those who are familiar with the band’s previous work. “We needed to create intense music, whether it was intensely wild or intensely fragile. We have no interest in slack-jawed, faux working-class posturing or conceited, culturally aware post-irony. It’s got to be about hearts on sleeves not tongues in cheeks (arse or otherwise).” States Campbell
…Glasgow, late nineties… Craig B., fresh from the ashes of Ganger, called upon long time friend Campbell McNeil to work on some ideas. In need of a drummer they found satisfaction in one-time jazz percussionist Martin Scott. Not chin strokers mind, but all proud to be beard wearers.
Chemikal underground simply had to work with Aereogramme on a more permanent and loving basis. A deal was finally concluded and the band retired to the studio to record their magnum opus, A Story In White. Aereogrammes debut album is a record that marries punishing metal with sublime moments of beauty. It weaved aggression and raw emotion into a new form, transforming calm into mayhem and back again without any surface glitches. It gently unfolds and envelops one completely by stealth. A Story In White was an unqualified triumph – LP of the month in Rock Sound and featuring in Kerrang’s LPs of 2001.
Following the release of A Story in White, Aereogramme embarked on a number of adventures – two American tours, a string of headlining dates across Europe & the UK as well as shows with Idlewild and Anathema, and a bizarre firework incident involving Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips.
Aereogramme walked straight off a plane into CaVa studios to work on this record. The imprint of dark films and the clinical beauty of ‘shoot-em ups’ loomed large. The resultant effect, on record, is that there is natural flow: a deeply cinematic structure – tracks move forward like scenes in a film.
Craig maintains that, “this record is just more intense all round. On the first LP we put the most crazy song after the quietest, which is quite hard for a lot of people to take in. This time we have grouped songs together, and to us it makes complete sense.”
Sleep and Release is also a highly charged and political record – the band are serious in their intent. “Each great civilisation in the history of humanity has been judged by its artistic output as well as its progress scientifically and politically – great art defines progress. Put simply a society that advocates the perpetual regurgitation of culture is a society in its death throes. This terrifies me when connected with current world events and there has got to be something more to creating great music than how well you can ape your dads record collection.” Campbell.
In one particularly unsettling moment on Sleep and Release a disjointed voice emanates from the speakers between “A Simple Process of Elimination” and “Older”. Craig: “This is a total fluke but someone rang Martin’s house during the last week of recording and left the message. A wake up call to just how low people can get. I guess it’s apt for this record – misery and joy share the same confusing space sometimes”. Aereogramme should be celebrated for their breadth of vision. They have made a truly great record – one that covers the whole emotional spectrum.
