Biography
MAGNETIC HEADS ARE BRIGHT,
like the radiant, bleached and blinding sunlight of an endless Australian sky.
Formed by Jonathon Desmond Miller (a.k.a Des Miller), drummer Christopher Rudge (Dolly Rocker Movement, Flying Foxes) and guitarist Evan Lock, the sound is something distinctly from ‘here’. A heavy focus on jangling 12-string guitars, tambourines and twisted synth hooks is presided over by Miller’s penetrating and transfixing vocal delivery – very much reminiscent of the English new-wavers (Curtis, McCulloch and Morrissey spring immediately to mind).
MAGNETIC HEADS also features brother, William Miller, on bass guitar, and Lucy Kaldor on keys/synths and backing vocals. The overall sound strikes chords in a much lighter vein. Echoes of early Go Betweens and Americana the likes of David Byrne, not to mention contemporaries Deerhunter. The band also calls on the concentrated and roomy production values of early INXS, and more recently on that of Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields), Spoon and Grizzly Bear.
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