With
roots based in Exeter the band originated far from the London
throng and was proud not to be part of a club or clique.
"Appliance appeal to who they appeal to," states James.
The band is thankful to the support from Mute as David explains.
"We’ve felt that our music has progressed quite considerably
over time. One of the reasons is because of the amount of money
we’ve been able to spend compared to our first self financed
and released EPs."
"Money with recording can be a double edged sword,"
starts James. "If you have too much you become too indulgent
and perhaps loose your way, a little bit of it can make a better
record."
Thankfully the band are no My Bloody Valentine. However have
these changes affected the tone of the new album?
Michael and James quickly agree that it’s more uptempo,
leading James to be more detailed. "It has got us going
back to guitars and drums a lot. Though the album has still
got a lot of colour to it. What happened with 'Imperial
Metric' for people who know it is that we approached writing
in a different way. We used electronics a lot more in the writing
earlier on. With this record we’ve come full circle a bit
and gone back to how we used to write but we were still learning
all the lessons on the way. So it isn’t full circle, that’s
a bit cruel to ourselves."
Michael also adds to his original statement. "It’s
not that we’ve come back thinking we did it all wrong and
lets go back to basics. We’ve evolved and melded all the
things that we did."
James carries the conversation on. "It’s very colourful,
there’s lot of layers to it. Live we’re using a laptop.
Where as before we were trying to create those sounds ourselves.
We were almost too busy on the last live dates. We had so much
to do on stage to try and capture."
The band announces that they won’t be playing any new songs.
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