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Art of Fighting's debut album Wires is the first full-length release from a band who have been making music for the last six years. Influenced by the romance of 1930s jazz, the minimalism of post-grunge abstract rock and the power of sad pop music the world over, it is a melancholy exploration of love characterized by haunting and subtle instrumentation and sublime melodies. Acclaimed by critics throughout Australia, it has seen the band tour with the likes of Cat Power, Smog, Mogwai, Stephen Malkmus, Songs Ohia, the Church and the Go-Betweens. They also managed to head overseas for a 23-date tour of Europe, which included an appearance at the prestigious Crossing Border festival in Amsterdam. Wires follows two award-winning mini-albums released on cult Sydney label Half A Cow, and was recorded in Sydney with highly regarded sound engineer Tim Whitten, who has recorded some classic Australian records by bands such as Crow, Gaslight Radio, Gersey and the Clouds. It was released on Trifekta Records in Australia at the end of March, 2001 and has been on high rotation on alternative/community radio ever since. Trifekta is the Australian home of Sodastream, Gersey, Life Without Buildings and Minimum Chips, was the first port of call in the dizzying journey of dance maestros the Avalanches, and now serves as the Aussie label for Superchunk and Preston School of Industry.
The Very
Strange Year CD
EP (Half a Cow, 1998; reissued
in 2002 with different artwork) COMPILATION APPEARANCES: "The
Chorus Is Suffering" and "You and Me On Mars" on Wonder
From a Quarter Acre CD (Au-go-go,
1997)
Band website: www.artoffighting.com E-mail: aofhouse [at] yahoo [dot] com [dot] au Snail mail: PO Box 1355 For booking inquiries, please contact the band directly.
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