Fists
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom | INDIE
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Press
‘Stag’ is an ambitious affair that couples the loose lo-fi swagger of The Velvet Underground with the drug induced majesty of Spiritualized. Norman Records
“…A delightfully tumbledown fusion of hillbilly twang and soft-psych pop harmony…” The Stool Pigeon
“Fists sound like a drunken art collective playing country songs they’ve never heard before. Which is meant to be a compliment.” www.artrocker.com
“Punky, rockabilly lo-fi fun…” NME
“Oddly engaging, haunting and erratic.” Steve Lamacq BBC 6Music/Radio 2
“...noisy, ramshackle rock that fizzes like a mouthful of refreshers.” The Devil Has The Best Tuna
“This is evolved rock n roll at it’s best” www.newsinglesreview.com
“…a pleasingly disorientated collection of Cowboy Junkies style intimacy, pounding mystery-rock and country music spiked with bad acid.” 4/5 Artrocker Magazine
“Fists greatest asset is their wild unpredictability” www.the-fly.co.uk
‘lo-fi Modern Lovers-embracing indiepop from Nottingham that doesn’t take a full three minutes to assert its charms…Lovely’
Soundsxp.com
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Discography
Cockatoo b/w Skit Ltd Ed 7" / Released: April 2009 / Hello Thor Records
Rough Trade Counter Culture 09' Compilation (featured song 'Cockatoo') / Released: Feb 8th 2010 / Rough Trade Shops
Olympic Hits EP / Released March 29th 2010 / Hello Thor Records
Ascending b/w Stag Ltd Ed 7" / Released: February 2011 / Hello Thor Records
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Bio
Fists are an experimental indie-rock band that live and write out of a tiny bedroom studio above a video shop in central Nottingham. They formed in 2006 around a 4-track tape machine; drum kit, practice amp, washboard and a raft of junked keyboards. They cite the experimental home-recorded 50s pop of producer Joe Meek, lo-fi cassette pioneers such as Daniel Johnston and Simon Joyner and an armload of thrash metal, punk and indie-rock records from the 80s and 90s as influences.
Their music is characterised by it's wonky country twang, vintage heavy metal bass runs, pounding drums and reverb drenched electric guitars that awkwardly underpins their wildly changeable music.
They have toured and played extensively with the likes of Obits, The Vaselines, Sparrow and the Workshop, Let’s Wrestle, Cryptacize, Cowtown, Please, Warm Brains, Lords and Beards and have appeared at numerous festivals such as Glastonbury (BBC Introducing), Dot to Dot, Y Not and Truck over the past couple of years.
To date they’ve released two critically acclaimed 7” inch singles (Cockatoo/Skit & Ascending/Stag) and a 4-track EP (Olympic Hits) through Midland’s based DIY label Hello Thor.
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