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St Deluxe make Glaswegian fuzz-pop with beautiful noise
Alan McGee called St. Deluxe "a Scottish Nirvana for the 21st Century" and Tim Burgess said that he was reminded of Nirvana in the Bleach era and that he "played New Wave Stars on repeat constantly".
We needed to hear this band to decide for ourselves whether such grand endorsements were justified. We were given some promo videos for the band's first couple of singles, we listened and we realised very quickly that St Deluxe are something really special.
Formed by Martin Kirwan and Jamie Cameron in Glasgow, they're Dinosaur Junior meets Teenage Fanclub and Nirvana. But they're not playing indie/grunge by numbers. They have their own identity and a distinct sound all of their own that was no doubt encouraged out of them by legendary producer and Creation co-founder Joe Foster, who was tempted out of self imposed exile in Brazil to produce their first single; 'New Wave Stars', was described by Alan McGee as "utterly essential... dipped in the Creation Records legacy of chemical pop imbalance."
The four members of St Deluxe have been together for four years. It started with Martin and Jamie being in a band called Speeder, who were signed to the same label as Garbage and Ash. They quit Speeder and began playing for BMX Bandits, the band that Kurt Cobain said he would be in if he wasn't in Nirvana. It was in BMX Bandits where they met Stuart and Brian. Typical of the close knit nature of Glasgow's music scene, Jamie, Brian and Stuart were also in Teenage Fanclub drummer Francis Macdonald's other band Nice Man & The Bad Boys.
Jamie said: "It was fun being in these bands but we wanted to do something different. This is us...we are in control. We try and experiment with guitars and synthesisers as much as we possibly can.
"When St Deluxe play live we're definitely influenced by bands like My Bloody Valentine, we always want to play as loud as possible; that in itself is a really good effect, I think. It's all about trying to have fun, trying to make it exciting for us and the audience. Mind you, lots of venues have noise limiters these days, which is a pain. We play loud and I think sometimes it has a kind of a physical effect on people and emotionally as well... but we just like to make a bit of noise as well to be honest!"
Check the media player above for St Deluxe's cover of big River by Johnny Cash produced by Joe Foster. It has that early Creation sound with the St Deluxe stamp all over it, we like it alot...
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