Laymar’s debut album In Strange Lines And Distances... is avilable now on TV Records

PLAY Juvenile Whole Life from In Strange Lines And Distances...
REVIEWS Recordings/laymar
DOWNLOAD AmazonUK & AmazonUSA & Play.com
BUY Amazon

LAYMAR
IN STRANGE LINES AND DISTANCES....

The most thrilling thing you’ll hear for a long time
THE FLY

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Swords is exhilarating, Swords is dark and brooding and suffocating in an understated minimal experimental way – Swords saved it all and just as I was thinking about yelling about no more post rock and pass me that Sammy Hagar album about fast sports cars and hitch-hiking women in short red dresses.... Swords is thrilling, Swords is one of the best pieces of instrumental atmospheric mood music in ages, 28 Days good and beyond the cliches of mere post rock. Throbbing brooding organic instrumental darkness and building drama – an amazing piece of shape shifting music and just when you think they can’t take you any higher the brilliant drama of the drums slowly kick in, brilliant brilliant brilliant! Subtle mood shifting brilliance (I’d tell you it was like the first time you heard Wish You Were Here, I’d tell you it was that good but you’d accuse me of going completely over the top). ...
         This is an excellent debut album from the Manchester three piece, it took a couple of listens to really grab, the whole album is good, there’s personality here, an original take on instrumental post tock and yes, you do need this album in there with your post rock classics.
ORGAN

Brooding drones and ambient textures from Manchester.
Even those of us who dig post -rock would have to concede that it’s become rather formulaic, so let’s not use that tag for Laymar’s impressive deployment of crystalline atmospherics and dark textures. Aside from maybe The Cocteau Twins, this album references soundtracks rather than other bands, its future sound of gloom aesthetic tailor made for your next trip into the icy depths of outer space. In more rockist terms, this could easily appeal to affectionados of Trent Reznor’s ambient side, or perhaps devotees of post BM outfits Ulver, but this haunting trip into the darkness stands as as intensely individual work.KKKK
KERRANG!

The post-rock equivalent of the best massage you've ever had.
If Sigur Ros were born to soundtrack the desolation of nature, Laymar were born to soundtrack the desolation of the inner city...
Almost entirely instrumental, dark, low and with enough of a beat to ensure they're not ambient, Laymar are music to listen to on a midnight drive through industrial wastelands...
The band consists of just three men: Colin Williams on guitar, piano and synth; Ciaran Cullen on bass and synth; and David Paul on drums and sequenced electronics (and album artwork). Rock minimalism filtered through Godspeed You, Black Emperor and electronic trickery, their music is the sound of the long, long, midnight haul on a work drive you don't want to be on, the sounds that drift through your head as you fall asleep, leaving your mate to drive. The slow turn of the wheel, the drag of the tarmac, the faint memory of the town you've just left. And it's beautiful.
MUSICOMH.COM

Post-rock times ten.
Thundering basslines flash out of a fog of knotted guitars and Judgment Day samplers. Yeah. This sounds a bit like a experimental B Side collection of bits that didn’t make it onto the T2 soundtrack for fear of actually inducing an apocalypse right there and then. But we’re ready for it now and pleased about it too.
SUBBACULTCHA


Pretty devastating fare
Switching seamlessly between minimalistic prettiness, Neanderthalian noise-mongering, dubstep-hued subterranean bass escapades and a graceful coda that glitters like the first rays of sun after a particularly nasty storm, ‘Swords’ sounds totally unique and absolutely spellbinding. The same can be said for most of the rest of In Strange Lines and Distances.
GIGWISE

OTHER REVIEWS

A tremor of bass and a synth sound that send shivers down your neck, like the desolate New Order in that interlude between the end of Joy Division and the dawning of their disco age.
MANCHESTERMUSIC.COM

Tripped-out, lysergic sonic odysseys which are part Mogwai, part (early) Verve, part Dolby Surround soundtrack to your worst nightmare... they summon up a vertigo-inducing wall of noise. It's music which is brimming with nerve-shredding tension and fury, but - like Ian Curtis in triplicate all on stage at once - it's also eerily spellbinding.
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

Like Mogwai playing a set of instrumental Joy Division cover versions. Excellent.
ANGRY LEFT WING MOFO

A monolithic apex of spine-tingling sound to tear the breath from your lungs and the words from your mouth.
ANGRYAPE

A mesmeric, head crunching experience.  It's brave, experimental stuff, that takes inspiration from Mogwai's well thumbed handbook, but creates a rather Mancunian urban landscape (Chameleons, shades of an uber heavy Joy Division and plenty of heavy references from the likes of Nine Inch Nails and Tool).
MANCHESTERMUSIC.COM

http://www.myspace.com/laymarmusic
Radio promotion: kevin@rocketpr.co.uk 020 7326 1234
Press: ken@hermana.co.uk 020 7733 8009