We Are ILL

by ILL

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Jack Nance Hair This is what post-punk should sound like- inventive, angry, funny and completely out of its tree! Wonderful live too Favorite track: Slithering Lizards.

vixval Awesome energy, I love it so much! Great album, I love Bears even more x Favorite track: Bears.

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1.	ILL Song 03:07	buy track
2.	Space Dick 03:14	buy track
3.	Stuck On A Loop 03:50	buy track
4.	Bears 06:04	buy track
5.	Bus Shelter 04:41	buy track
6.	I Am The Meat 03:02	buy track
7.	Slithering Lizards 09:47	buy track
8.	Power 04:00	buy track
9.	Hysteria 03:13	buy track

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“Liberation through disobedient noise” (Loud and Quiet Magazine)

“A simple FUCK THAT, in the noisiest, most disobedient, most defiant way possible.” (The Quietus)

“A wickedly funny/deadly serious explosion of Day-Glo cartoon punk energy, fierce feminism, troglodyte garage stomp and mutant surfabilly electronics. It’s hard to pick highlights on an album which is all highlights.”
(NARC. magazine)

"We Are Ill is psychedelic, surreal, weird, funny and poignant. And with it, Ill have created a fearless debut that’s utterly unique."
(Drowned In Sound)

“It’s an epiphany.” (Soundblab Alternative Music)

"This album is like a hunt. It’s stalking sound with speed, picking off our prejudices, taking chunks out of the patriarchy and throwing it forward as wonky pop with a raw, resonant edge. Music which makes a point, and makes it in the sharpest, most stunning sense. It brings in rawness, roughed-up riffs, even bits of metal (in the musical and material sense) along with soaring, stricken harmonies. ILL’s debut album ‘We Are ILL’ isn’t just expression, it’s an angry articulation – and in that, a triumph."
(Louder Than War)

“A stunning debut and heading to the top of my list of albums of the year already.” (Thegingerquiff)

“In 1968, German activists SPK vowed to ‘turn illness into a weapon!’ Fifty years on, with this album, ILL have done just that.” (Loud Women)

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Recorded over 18 months in the crumbling mills of Ancoats, Manchester, the album captures ILL's legendary live energy. Immediate, raw and spontaneous, from art-pop bangers like Stuck On A Loop to improvised departures from structure like Slithering Lizards, it drops you right into the basement of a disreputable house party.
Subversive, surrealistic, humorous and fighting fierce, ILL warmly invite you to join them in kicking some ass! 💖

credits

released May 11, 2018

Harri Shanahan vocals and keys
Sadie Noble vocals, guitar, percussion, tapes
Whitney Bluzma vocals, bass, percussion
Fiona Ledgard drums
Tamsin Middleton vocals

Lyrics and music – Harri Shanahan, Sadie Noble, Whitney Bluzma, Fiona Ledgard, Rosanne Robertson

Engineering and production – John Tatlock at The Box Mobile Recording Studio

Cover images - Megan Powell

Cover design - Whitney Bluzma and Harri Shanahan

Released on 11 May on Box Records (BoxRec027).

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ILL Manchester, UK

ILL is a genre-evading band which believes in the power of disobedient noise. With a repertoire of precarious pop songs and frequent improvised departures, ILL revel in the right to be weird, exploring the borders between the funny and the sinister, the personal and the political, the mundane and the surreal.

“Grotty, wild, weird, frenzied music... fiercely political.” - The Guardian ... more

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Apr 20

Wagenplatz Wem gehört die Welt

Cologne, Germany

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