Tracks like I’ve Seen Your Face in a Music Magazine, Wet Dream Fanzine and Joy in a Small Wage mark Essex’s Asylums out as a band with both a sense of humour and purpose, and there’s much about their exuberant indie-rock to remind fans of UK bands like Supergrass and Buzzcocks, as well as US alt. rockers like Weezer and Dinosaur Jr. They’re poppy and fun, but they take their music seriously, releasing songs on their own label, Cool Thing Records, while also making their own videos.
I’ve Seen Your Face in a Music Magazine was included on the Â鶹Éç Introducing Mixtape in April 2014, helping later tracks get picked up by the likes of Zane Lowe, Phil Taggart, Steve Lamacq and Huw Stephens, and the four-piece also recently supported Turbowolf and Carl Barât and The Jackals. Remember the last time we heard of a great band from Southend-on-Sea – The Horrors? Well Asylums are just as good, but a whole load more colourful.
Tracks like I’ve Seen Your Face in a Music Magazine, Wet Dream Fanzine and Joy in a Small Wage mark Essex’s Asylums out as a band with both a sense of humour and purpose, and there’s much about their exuberant indie-rock to remind fans of UK bands like Supergrass and Buzzcocks, as well as US alt. rockers like Weezer and Dinosaur Jr. They’re poppy and fun, but they take their music seriously, releasing songs on their own label, Cool Thing Records, while also making their own videos.
I’ve Seen Your Face in a Music Magazine was included on the Â鶹Éç Introducing Mixtape in April 2014, helping later tracks get picked up by the likes of Zane Lowe, Phil Taggart, Steve Lamacq and Huw Stephens, and the four-piece also recently supported Turbowolf and Carl Barât and The Jackals. Remember the last time we heard of a great band from Southend-on-Sea – The Horrors? Well Asylums are just as good, but a whole load more colourful.
