Colin G at the excellent Ourobouros Podcast has given ‘Warning’ from our Ghost Box EP a spin on this week’s show, co-hosted by Brandi from the equally excellent InsideOutcast .

Full track for show #135 is

1. The Kiara Elles – Odio
2. Sickhoose – TIA
3. The August Infinity – My Confession
4. The Raudive – Warning
5. Sleepless Nights – Everybody’s Dancing
6. Broken Links – The Best Laid Schemes Of Mice And Men
7. Self Destructing Messengers – Gift Horse
8. Waked Lunch – the Return

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Big, big thanks to Colin and Brandi for giving us a spin! Go check it out!

It’s finally here! Our debut record is released today Check out our dedicated Ghost Box page to buy (link in the right hand column), or search for it on iTunes, Amazon MP3 and eMusic. We’ll also be available through Napster and the Nokia Music Store soon too.

(Via YouTube)

Last Sunday, Neil Jones was good enough to invite us on the Star FM Rock Show to chat about Ghost Box. For those who missed us you can download or play the interview here.

Catch the Star Radio Rock Show with Neil Jones, Sundays 7pm – 10pm on 107.9/1FM or online at www.star107.co.uk

We’re also appearing on Star FM in Cambridge and Ely twice next month. Once with Amy Bidwell (recording 9th Sept – transmission date as soon as we know) and again on Sunday Sept 20th with Neil Jones on the Star FM Rock Show sometime between 7 and 10pm – 107.9/1 FM or you can listen online

Ghost Box is the debut release by The Raudive, a band named after the scientist Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian writer and intellectual with a particular fascination with parapsychology. His “Ghost Box” was based on an idea that by recording dead air, or the white noise emenating from an ill-tuned radio, you could pick up the voices of the dead. Raudive himself was convinced that he was hearing them, “speaking five or six languages at a time”.

The band were brought together just over a year ago on a similar pairing of indie-rock and science and since conception they have been building on their craft ever since. Their sheer aural size belittles the idea that a three-piece need sound anything less than powerful. Live and on record, bright swells of guitars collide and subsist to create an effect that it is both abrasive, angular and, at times, beautiful.

Drawing influence from the lo-fi indie-rock of Sebadoh and Sonic Youth, as well as a healthy regard for 80’s luminaries such as Mission Of Burma and The Replacements, there is a raw honesty in the songs here that is both charming and, in its darkness, unnerving. From the chiming warmth around “Margins”’ chorus to the emotionally charged “Torch Song”, there is a well-worn intensity that carries itself throughout.

With scraps of melody married to fragmented lyrics, Ghost Box is a record that burns slowly and grandly. As a debut, this is as promising a pitch-black statement of intent as any.

For more details please contact James Parrish at james@prescriptionpr.co.uk – www.prescriptionpr.co.uk

Tracks are:

1. Warning
2. Margins
3. I’m Control
4. Under the Willows
5. For the Crows
6. Torch Song

We’re also playing the Corner House in Cambridge on Weds 8th July – FREE entry as always, but we should hopefully have copies of ‘Ghost Box’ on sale there.

Hi,

We’re still putting everything together here, so please excuse the mess. But we have some treats in store for you very, very soon. In the meantime, head over to our MySpace and Facebook pages, or follow us on Twitter.

In fact we’re heading back to Sickroom Studios in Norfolk in just a couple of days time to finish off our first big project for 2009. More details when we have them, but expect good things!