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SATURDAY 7TH APRIL // SATURDAY 7TH APRIL

One Inch Badge presents:

SONS OF NOEL & ADRIAN

Following on from their sold out show at The Albert as part of SEA MONSTERS 2 festival, SONAA are back on the road and will be releasing a brand new collection of songs this year - their second long player, Knots. The band’s sophomore album sees them breaking away from the acoustic roots of their debut album which lead them to tour twice with Mumford & Sons and support Laura Marling at Royal Festival Hall.

The Sons’ immersion in folk music was always more informed by guitarists like Dave Pajo, David Grubbs and Jeff Parker than by traditionalists. These influences, rooted in the city of Chicago’s pre-millennial post-rock, jazz and avant-pop scenes, are explored on Knots resulting in an album much closer to the band’s live sound.

The duelling fingerpicked classical guitars are still there, but they’re put through cranked up, needle-in-the-red valve amps. There’s still a bit of banjo, but it’s played with an e-bow and a slide so it sounds like a haunted Hammond organ. And there’s plenty of actual Hammond, giving the track “Come Run Fun Stella Baby Mother of the World” a kind of fairground darkness borrowed from Liars or Captain Beefheart.

Elsewhere the fragile strings of “Black Side of the River” evoke the still sadness of humanity epitomised by Arvo Pärt augmented by the weighty piano chords of Earth; “Big Bad Bold” sounds like These New Puritans started an earthquake in a burning symphony hall; “Cathy Come Home” demonstrates the band’s love of drone, unison and extended guitar techniques and ends up sounding somewhere between Tortoise and the scores of Danny Elfman; and aching closer “Heroine” sounds like Robert Wyatt sped up a track from Twin Peaks for Will Oldham to sing over.

At times soft and orchestral, at times crass and loud, Knots is always infused with beauty and tenderness: soulful, taunt, honed and with a new found love of kosmiche experimentation.

Knots’ expanded sonic tapestry is marshalled and woven with growing stature by SONAA’s chief song-writer, Jacob Richardson, whose meditative lyrical concepts and melodic craftsmanship mark him out as musician of genuine depth and gravitas whilst remaining as arcane and beguiling as Palace.

Rejecting notions of a fixed line-up, Sons of Noel and Adrian is more of a sprawling musical whirlpool centered around a few key members than a traditional band - a bit like Broken Social Scene, with whom two Sons toured last year as their horn section. The band members make up most of the renowned Willkommen Collective that spawned The Leisure Society, and the various members lend their talents freely to everyone from Damo Suzuki to the Laura Marling, with one Son, a full time contributor to her band and as many as four playing with her on certain shows including last year’s Glastonbury Festival Pyramid Stage performance.

Such selfless creative interdependence is at the heart of the Willkommen Collective and Sons of Noel and Adrian. The results of their musical co-operative have yielded a sophomore effort that transcends their debut and positions them as one of 2012’s most unique and thrilling propositions: Knots see SONAA charting new, unexplored aural terrain as immersive an experience on stage as it on record.

+ Laish

+ Emma Gatrill

SATURDAY 7th April 2012

at The Haunt, Brighton

10 Pool Valley Coach Station, BN1 1NJ

£7.00 advance // 7:00pm // 14+ show

TICKETS: http://www.seetickets.com/Event/SONS-OF-NOEL-ADRIAN/The-Haunt-Brighton/616333 // http://www.wegottickets.com/event/154249 // http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/ // Resident Music (01273 606312) // Rounder Records (01273 325440)

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15th February: Brother & Bones @ The Prince Albert, Brighton

16th February: Grouplove @ The Haunt, Brighton

20th February: Kurt Vile & The Violators @ The Haunt, Brighton - SOLD OUT!

20th February: Rams Pocket Radio @ Green Door Store, Brighton - FREE ENTRY!

29th February: The War On Drugs @ Concorde 2, Brighton

2nd March: Citizens! @ Green Door Store, Brighton - FREE ENTRY!

3rd March: Allo Darlin' @ The Haunt, Brighton

3rd March: Phantom Limb @ Latest Music Bar, Brighton

3rd March: Earth @ Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

4th March: To Kill A King @ The Prince Albert, Brighton

4th March: Funeral Suits @ Green Door Store, Brighton

9th March: Future Islands @ The Haunt, Brighton

9th March: Three Trapped Tigers @ Green Door Store, Brighton

9th March: The Megaphonic Thrift @ The Prince Albert, Brighton

12th March: Earth @ The Haunt, Brighton

13th March: Veronica Falls @ The Haunt, Brighton

15th March: Xiu Xiu @ Sticky Mike's Frog Bar, Brighton

30th March: Shearwater @ The Haunt, Brighton

1st April: Architects w/ Rolo Tomassi @ Concorde 2, Brighton

5th April: The Wave Pictures @ Green Door Store, Brighton

11th April: 2:54 w/ Chelsea Wolfe @ Green Door Store, Brighton

12th April: Pelican @ The Haunt, Brighton

13th April: Pelican @ The Cooler, Bristol

13th April: Laura Gibson @ Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton

13th April: Ancient VVisdom, Green Door Store, Brighton

15th April: Great Lake Swimmers, Green Door Store, Brighton

18th April: Sea Of Bees, The Haunt, Brighton

21st April: Sleep Party People, Green Door Store, Brighton

5th May: Bowerbirds @ The Haunt, Brighton

5th May: Red City Radio @ The Hydrant, Brighton

21st May: Set Your Goals @ The Hydrant, Brighton

25th May: Of Mice And Men @ The Haunt, Brighton

8th June: Introducing perform DJ Shadow's "Entroducing" @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester

9th June: Introducing perform DJ Shadow's "Entroducing" @ The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds