Crackout

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Crackout
General information
origin Bicester , England
Genre (s) Alternative rock , pop-punk
founding 1997
resolution 2005
Last occupation
William Eagles
Nicholas Millard
Jack Dunkley
former members
Electric bass
 Rachel Lavelle

Crackout was an English alternative rock and pop punk band from Bicester that was formed in 1997 and split up in 2005.

history

The band was founded in February 1997 and consisted of singer and guitarist William Eagles, bassist Rachel Lavelle and drummer Nicholas Millard, the latter and Eagles already known each other from their school days. The first gig was held in September. After the first EP called Chuck was released on Shifty Disco Records in January 1998 , an album was recorded for the same label, but it remained unreleased. After a year of silence, the group returned with Jack Dunkley as the new bass player. Her first tour with this new line-up was held in April 1999. This was followed by appearances with The Bluetones . After almost 18 months of live activity, EP 1 was released in 2001 . In April, the group booked a recording studio in Texas for six weeks . This was Willie Nelson's recording studio, David Eaton was the producer. After her return, EP 2 appeared with an edition of 500 copies. The band also toured the UK and performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals . In the same year, Virgin Records released their debut album This Is Really Neat and almost simultaneously the single You Dumb Fuck . The latter reached number 87 on the British charts. The following singles I Am the One (2002), Out of Our Minds (2003) and This Is What We Do (2004) finished 72nd, 63rd and 65th. The latter two are taken from the 2003 album Oh No! , which was published by Hut Recordings in 2003 , but in Germany only in April 2004 by Virgin Music . In 2005 the band split up. In their career the band was able to play with Nine Inch Nails and Amen , among others .

style

According to Christian Graf in his Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon , the group was one of the young British Nu-Metal bands alongside Vex Red and Hundred Reasons . Graf was a style description of the Rolling Stone magazine, again: The group used a rumbling drums, fuzz guitars and a picture - timbre and thus rely more on the Noise Pop of grunge - and alternative rock bands such as Weezer . Henning Richter from Metal Hammer wrote in his review of This Is Really Neat that crackout just like Sona Farique , My Vitriol , Vex Red or Hundred Reasons does not want to be assigned to Nu Metal . In the songs you can still hear the original influences like AC / DC , The Cure and Weezer a little today . Britpop is said to be too "screaming" for the band , although they do not correspond to the Nu Metal stereotype . That's why the band decided to go somewhere in the middle and use both slow and aggressive, hardcore-punk- heavy passages. Jan Schwarzkamp from Ox-Fanzine described the music on the album as a mixture of blink-182 , Smile and Dynamite Boy . Sometimes the singing reminds me of Bush , other times of The Cure. For Steven Thomsen from Eclipsed , the first album was “uncouth” punk , the second was “dirty rumble rock'n'roll ” thanks to recognizable melodies and the variety of breaks . Overall, the style is typically British, which is why he gave Franz Ferdinand as a comparison.

Discography

  • Demo Tape (Demo, 1997, self-published)
  • Chuck (EP, 1998, Shifty Disco Records )
  • Gig Tape (Demo, 2000, self-published)
  • This Is Really Neat (Album, 2001, Hut Recordings )
  • EP 1 (EP, 2001, Precious Cargo )
  • EP 2 (EP, 2001, Precious Cargo)
  • Untitled (EP, 2001, Precious Cargo)
  • Over My Head (EP, 2001, Precious Cargo)
  • You Dumb Fuck (Single, 2001, Hut Recordings)
  • Volume (single, 2002, Hut Recordings)
  • I Am the One (Single, 2002, Hut Recordings)
  • Out of Our Minds (Single, 2003, Hut Recordings)
  • This Is What We Do (Single, 2004, Hut Recordings)
  • Oh no! (Album, 2004, Hut Recordings)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d crackout. bbc.co.uk, accessed June 25, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b c d Christian Graf: Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon . Lexikon Imprint Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89602-515-5 , p. 56 f .
  3. ↑ CRACKOUT. officialcharts.com, accessed June 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Crackout - Oh No! Discogs , accessed June 25, 2016 .
  5. ^ Anke Schneider: Crackout. "Oh No!" Ed .: Virgin Music Promotion Rock / Alternative. Cologne 2004 (three-page laundry slip).
  6. ^ Crackout. Bio. drownedinsound.com, accessed June 25, 2016 .
  7. ^ Henning Richter: Crackout . This Is Really Neat. In: Metal Hammer . February 2002, p. 90 .
  8. ↑ January Black Kamp: Crackout . This Is Really Neat CD. In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 46 (March / April / May), 2002 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed June 25, 2016]).
  9. ↑ S [teven] T [homsen]: Crackout. “Oh No!” In: Eclipsed . Rock magazine. No. 63 , June 2004, CD Reviews, p. 42 .