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Minor Conflict
Minor Conflict
country: UK
genre: Indie
styles: Alternative, Post-Punk, Avant-Pop
Next Release
via PRAH Recordings
Living Statue
Single
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Emerging Bristol band MINOR CONFLICT create a unique combination of post-punk and post-folk using harp, bass, drums, trumpet, and synthesiser, underneath vocal lines that flit between monotonous and ethereal.
Today they announce their signing to PRAH Recordings, and share new single "Living Statue".
""Living Statue" is written from the perspective of a street performer who dresses in silver and mimics a statue with much skill and physical strain. The lyrics imagine the unique way in which you would see and interact with people, and also how you might become lost in abstract thoughts and experience time passing in a strange way." - Minor Conflict on "Living Statue"
Minor Conflict’s discordant mix of twinkling harp, menacing lo-end strut and deadpan call and response turned heads at the beginning of 2022 on their debut single "Office Block". A snapshot of urban mundanity, the track revelled in the pull and push tension of Natalie Whiteland’s plucked strings and soaring backing vocals, alongside bassist Josh Smyth’s observational lyrics. It brought to mind agit-guitar contemporaries Squid and Pozi – they went onto share multiple stages with the former, while Pozi’s Toby Burroughs produced "Office Block".
Now a year or so on, the group have readied new material, a thrilling expansion of the themes hinted at on their first single. With Marcus Jeffrey joining on drums, Robbie Warin has been freed up to move between trumpet, synths and samples and so creating a subtle and lightly menacing depth around the taut, skeletal vocal and instrumental interplay between Whiteland and Smyth.
“We’re conscious in pushing ourselves and creating something different” they say. “The instrumentation of the band lends itself to that, but we also talk about it in writing sessions and work to explore new combinations of different instruments and voices.”
"Living Statue" was written collaboratively at The Cube in Bristol – where they all volunteer – was recorded with Chris McRory at Glasgow’s Green Door Studio. News of their debut EP is set to follow soon.
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