UK alt-rock duo A Cause In Distress have released their debut album, In Search Of Spring. We asked them the BIG questions . . .
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Tell us three things about yourself . . .
Scientific precision vs hedonistic abandon. The quiet one is actually the wild one and the wild one is actually the quiet one. We will let you guess who's who. We formed in 2014 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. We met studying at Southend College. We got chatting because Liam had a Prodigy T-Shirt on.
How would you describe your music?
An earnest documentation of an anxious mind in a corroding world.
Who are your musical inspirations?
Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin, Depeche Mode.
What was the first gig you ever went to?
Liam: Muse at Wembley Stadium, June 2007.
Dom: Paul McCartney, Hyde Park, 2010.
What was the first record you ever bought?
Liam: Bloc Party - Silent Alarm.
Dom: Prince - Purple Rain.
What's your favourite song right now?
Liam: Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous.
Dom: Floating Points - Birth4000.
Favourite lyric of all time?
Liam: "I have only two emotions, Careful fear and dead devotion." - The National - Don’t Swallow The Cap.
Dom: "I jumped in the river and what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me, A moon full of stars and astral cars, And all the figures I used to see." - Radiohead - Pyramid Song.
If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Liam: Talk Talk - New Grass.
Dom: Aphex Twin - Xtal.
Where can people find your music/more information?
Bandcamp. @CauseDistress - Twitter. .a.cause.in.distress - Instagram. A Cause In Distress - Facebook.
Alan Corr
