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This album was record­ed dur­ing June-Novem­ber 2008, but it has­n’t been released yet. Gram­mat­ics is a British indie rock band from Leeds with a com­plex sound. Owen Brin­ley (guitar/vocals), Emil­ia Ergin (cel­lo), Dominic Ord (drums) and Rory O’Hara (bass) have an orches­tral approach to their rock, quite far off from the min­i­mal­ist style dom­i­nant in the British Indie scene. Emil­ia Ergin uses the cel­lo much like a lead gui­tar. The rhythm sec­tion is very strong: this is Rock, not mushy orches­trat­ed pop. There’s a wee bit of Queens Of The Stone Age and oth­er Amer­i­can indie bands per­cep­ti­ble in this mix, but on the whole, Gram­mat­ics is an orig­i­nal band, try­ing to do things on its own terms. Every song is dif­fer­ent, every song is inter­est­ing. I’ll be lis­ten­ing to any­thing I can get from this group.