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entitled ''Honey Slides'' on guitarist Al English's label Try Harder. Between April and June 2007, the band recorded their first full-length album, '' Good Nature'', at the Seamus Wong studio in Leicester, released on Drowned in Sound Recordings on 17 March 2008. Ant Theaker, former guitarist with Hope of the States, produced the album, which was mixed at the Strongroom Studios in east London, and mastered in Chicago by Bob Weston of

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. The album introduced "a new attention to melody" and was the first recording to feature the trumpet playing of Sam Scott. In December 2009, the band announced that they had split. In March 2010, the band toured one last time in England and Scotland along with regular collaborator Adam Gnade. In October 2017, the band announced a one-off reunion show, which was to take place in March 2018 in Oxford. After the show sold out in under an hour, a second date was announced. Both shows were fundraisers for The Brain Tumour Charity.

Discography

Albums

*'' Good Nature'' ( Drowned in Sound Recordings, released 17 March 2008)

EPs

*'' Let's Get Going... You're Fracturing Me With This Misery'' ( Quickfix Recordings, 2003) *'' Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than the Last; The Inexorable March of Progress Will Lead Us All to Happiness'' (Fierce Panda, August 2004) *''Honey Slides'' ( Try Harder Records, collaboration with

released September 2007) *''Polyp'' ( Blast First Petite (featuring guest spots by

and members of

and Blanket released November 2008)

Singles

*"Ores" (

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CDRs

*''Homeless Musics I'' (October 2005) *''Homeless Musics II'' (2006) *''Homeless Musics III'' (2006)

References

External links

*
2007 Interview for the Cambridge Film Festival
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