PoP BaNd

Bursting from the realm of Music City Bristol are Experimental Pop Band - an eclectic fusion of intelligent pop mixed with strumming guitars, cool samples, soulful jazzy moments and beats. Experimental Pop Band were formed in 1995 initially as a studio project involving Davey Woodward (vocals, guitar, samples), Chris Galvin (bass) and Corin. They released a number of Eps and their debut album 'Discgrotesque' in 1996 and 1997 on Swarf Finger Records. Music press from across the board fancied them as "skewed boho-pop", "world-weary", "bookworms, eclectic, strum'n'bass vs beats vs indie shuffle vs European god knows what. Pop music for people who are bored with pop music!." The achieved Single Of The Week and Pick Of The Week in Melody Maker in consecutive issues in August 1996 with 'Boutique In My Backyard'. 1998 saw the EPB hone the songs that you can hear on their second album 'Homesick'. They also left Swarf Finger and released one single (the terrific '40 Greatest Hits') on the now defunct Cup Of Tea. 1998 proved a very difficult year for the band both personally and professionally, as Chris was terminally ill. He died in December. EPB's relationship with Cup Of Tea was dissolved in early 1999. Experimental Pop Band have always been as serious as they have been playful. The name - which was actually never meant to mean much, honest - says plenty about them, but is possibly misleading, since the emphasis was always meant to be on the pop side of their nature. Maybe that's why, for all the talk, they haven't quite received the acclaim they deserved. People never quite knew how to take them. Or maybe it's because they never achieved quite what they set out to do. Whatever, it all means little now. With The Tracksuit Trilogy ,Experimental Pop Band are finally up and running. Produced on all but two tracks by John Parish, Experimental Pop Band have finally found the balance between their diverse influences, and when we say diverse, we mean diverse. From Bacharach to Beck, from The Velvet Underground to the boogie wonderland, EPB throw it all in and mix it all up.