Seven Four Records is a record distribution label that calls Melbourne, Australia home.
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LITE |
Aucan |
Hey!Tonal |
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Imperial China |
Passe Montagne |
You Slut! |
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LITE
A fantastic Japanese four-piece evoking the intricacies of Don Caballero and the post-rock sensibilities of Mono, LITE have released two LPs and two Eps since 2005. The sound is instrumental rock that's somewhere in between math and indie, whilst throwing in some dancy, upbeat riffs for good measure.
Technical yet accessible, LITE's latest LP "Phantasia" is the sound of a band who have mastered their craft, yet are getting better and better with each release. We are proud to be stocking their entire catalogue.
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Aucan
AUCAN are from Brescia, Italy, and consist of Francesco d'Abbraccio (keyboard/guitar), Dario Dassenno (drums) and Giovanni Ferliga (guitar/keyboard). They started playing together in 2005, and since then have only stopped for the odd nap here and cup of tea there. The result of this creative binge is a debut album that brims over with exuberant ambition; yet despite their youth, the band manages to pull off its aims with an assured confidence.
AUCAN’s music is based on a powerful combination of precision, energy and power. A dizzying concoction of barbaric guitars riffs, break on/break off drumming, sparse keyboard melodies and a tangled web of electronic sounds form a dense wave rich in frequency and tone. Picking up where 90’s Chicagoan rock bands (Shellac, Don Caballero) left off, AUCAN draw influence from a wide range of artists who marry the electronic with the organic - Fridge, Squarepusher, Tortoise, Battles.
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Hey!Tonal
HEY!TONAL is an experimental band comprising of Kevin Shea (Storm & Stress, Get The People, Talibam!, Coptic Light, People...), Mitch Cheney (Rumah Sakit, Sweep The Leg Johnny, Species Being, Greenness...), Dave Davison (Maps & Atlases), Alan Mills (Chii-saioto) and Theo Katsaounis (Weather, Locks, Joan of Arc, ZZZZ's...)
A different approach to writing and recording this debut album was necessary. With each band member dispersed over a wide geographical area, songs were constructed instrument by instrument, melody by melody. Each player took responsibility for new contributions to each piece and then Mitch and Alan reinvented and remixed them…or kept them the same...notes becoming buzzing becoming something like sounds made by questions and answers spoken simultaneously.
The overall impression is of some oblique explanation to an unsolved mystery - but then again, who would want to know exactly what is happening here? The beauty of this music lies in its ineffable quality.
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Imperial China
"I think I put a slide tube under the thickest string between the two pickups and the lid of a tin can through the strings around the third fret and hit the string with a metal barbecue skewer and bent the note and then hit the tin lid twice with the skewer. It's a bit hard to explain in words; if I read this, I wouldn't understand either." -- Andy Moor of the Dog Faced Hermans describing his guitar work on "Jan 9".
And that's Imperial China. Alternative yet accessible, encompassing the sounds of a rock and grunge era past, and the loopy, experimental sounds of the future. This three-piece from Washington DC rocks their way through a variety of styles that mesh together to bring one of the more creative post-rock sounds out there.
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Passe Montagne
Samuel Cochetel (guitar), Gilles Montaufray (guitar) and Julien Fernandez (drums – ex-CHEVREUIL), left their respective homes, jobs and families in France, Columbia and Italy and met in the studio at the end of 2008, short on time but determined to produce a follow up to their excellent debut album Long Play (Ruminance/PIAS). Necessity is the mother of invention, or so they say; and this record is testament to it. So little time and so much pressure seems to have resulted in a remarkably fertile creative frenzy.
With their previous output, the temptation might have been to compare PASSE MONTAGNE to the likes of Shellac, Don Caballero, and other giants of 90s noise rock. This new material, however, sounds closer to Led Zeppelin if fronted by a neurotic Jimmy Page, or the deranged yet exhilarating blues of The Magic Band in full flight. PASSE MONTAGNE have one foot firmly entrenched in late 60s/early 70s rock, whilst the other is determined to march confidently in to the future. The result is an idiot savant with a slightly confused yet strangely beautiful gait.
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You Slut!
"Rifftastic-post-progressive-indie-power-rock-math-disco-pop warfare" rockers from the UK Midlands. And its just about spot on. Citing influences from Fugazi to My Bloody Valentine, from At The Drive-In to The Rapture, their debut LP is full of power, creativity and playfulness.
Often, the songs' non-standard time signatures will give way to roaring riffs and pounding drum beats, leaving you not quite sure where you ended up, but definetly being better off for having the experience. This is a young band who have got lots more great material to come.
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