You Already Know - Stop Whispering

I have a theory that you can tell how interesting a band are likely to be by where they call ‘home’ – where they practice and create the music that they’re likely to inflict on the world later on. For indie/garage rockers (and I mean this in the purest sense of the word, not some neo Arctic Monkeys chart-indie pish), one would instantly get a picture of some city record shop’s attic, High-Fidelity stylee[sic], with bits of broken furniture and empty beer bottles mixed in with different guitar pedals and obscure bits of musical equipment. In You Already Know’s (lovingly shortened to YAK) case, this is actually true. Nestled up a dodgy staircase in Glasgow’s Avalanche Records, they’ve set up shop and got to work creating and recording a debut album – ‘Stop Whispering’.

As the band describe themselves: ‘We’re a heavy math-metal goliath with an indie pop band trapped inside, crying. Like if Tool sexed with Mogwai, and King Crimson stirred the porridge.’ - It’s a near vocal-less, ten-track mashup of tuneful noise and guitar parts, as if some latter ‘…trail of dead’ has been shortened and stripped of Conrad’s lungs and added wankyness – and it’s a pretty good outcome.

‘Stop Whispering’ has already featured on the Coalition of independent UK record shop’s chart, and is available to pick up on CD from wherever would fit that description near you, or get it on Amazon if you want to click and receive.

Best track on the album: Cloak And Dagger Confidence on Myspace