Altered Zones

You all know ATP, right? It’s a great festival for grunting men in white shorts music geeks, where age seems irrelevant. Old masters and young upstarts, punters and bands alike rub shoulders amidst the Carry On chalets of English holiday camps in faded-glory resorts.

Thread Pulls, unbelievably the only Irish band to have played ATP (at time of writing), echo the beat-within-noise aesthetic of minimalist Neubauten and the eerie rainfall of This Heat. When the rain pours and the wind blows in an English town inhabited by the ghosts of a romantic past, a young man's mind looks to the otherworldly glamour of places with names like Minehead or Bognor. There is nothing like a dead place that once shone like the brightest star.

MP3: Thread Pulls: "Weight"

New Thoughts is out September 24th on Irish label Osaka