Artist:contra

Drawn together from a miscellaneous musicians ad, mates since school on guitars met cousins on rhythm. Three months later their first ep ‘on a quiet day you can hear it breathing’ was recorded in a single 8-hour session. All the same age, they grew up listening to a variety of independent music, obsessed with indie rock as it evolved from My Bloody Valentine to Sonic Youth, listening to anything from Ride, Dinosaur Jr, Swervedriver, Teenage Fanclub, Trans Am, Mogwai, and Underground Lovers through to Engine Kid, Kyuss, Poster Children, Melvins, and Dead Kennedys.