LICE are a four piece band from Bristol - a wild assortment of friends who have been kicking about for years. However, this year things got serious with the release of an album on the hotly followed record label AD93. Titled "Third Time At The Beach" the album is split across three parts as the group attempt to navigate life in the present through a collage of sounds and realms.
As a group their influences are far reaching and as such the music can be hard to pin down or place. There's elements of minimalism, rock, punk, new wave, techno and beyond all dotted throughout. To most the collusion of sounds and styles would be difficult to navigate yet somehow everything comes together in a slightly mad, eccentric kind of way to wondrous effect.
The group describe the record as follows:
"Third Time At The Beach’s concept is expressed through three movements. The first (‘Unscrewed’, ‘White Tubes’, ‘Red Fibres’) presents the child being introduced to the world, hammered into shape through prevailing culture, and realising they have reached adulthood with a blinkered understanding of the world. The second (‘To The Basket’, ‘Wrapped In A Sheet’, ‘Scenes From The Desert’, ‘Mown In Circles’) is a disorientating, alien sequence: re-evaluating fundamental concepts including money, time, nationhood and language. In the third (‘Fatigued, Confused’, ‘Third Time At The Beach’, ‘The Dance’), the individual embraces these new ideas - granting them a changed understanding of the world, and more agency in the path they take through it."
When it comes to playing live the group are well versed. However, their upcoming tour is their biggest and most prolific yet with upcoming appearances in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and beyond.
This exclusive live session was recorded recently, giving listeners and would be dancers come moshers the chance to see what LICE are all about. They're pretty damn good if you ask us...
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