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The Alps Bio:
“4/5 'The Shining' is positively champing at my bit. The verse, a marching army of stunted chords, is trapped in a barking, bullying groove. Like a toy car, it's a song pulled back and ready to gun off into the skirting board.” Drowned In Sound
“Imagine Franz Ferdinand and The Clash being put into the musical melting pot with the energy and vibrancy of the early Supergrass singles. They are out to steal The Libertines current crown for energetic and melodic, power pop.” The Beat Surrender.co.uk
“The Alps are one of the best unsigned bands around” Music Subway
The Alps love tunes - can't get enough of 'em in fact! Similar to less fussy post-punkers The Jam, The Police and Elvis Costello, the Greenwich quartet don't muck about when it comes to knocking together the kind of thorny three-minute gems that look set to barge their way into mainstream consciousness.
Describing their tunes as 'high tempo foot stomping numbers' the band are a handsome bunch, sporting the same square-jawed matinee idol looks that forever haunt the faded celluloid of Hollywood's golden era. The suave bohemians have so far wowed the cool sets at The Metro, 93 Feet East and Cargo, winning a host of new fans along the way.
2004 has been good to The Alps, they won band of the week on XFM’s unsigned Exposure Competition in September and in October came second in the Karma Download chart (pipped to the top spot by Franz Ferdinand) and were second in James Smith, Director of A&R at Parlophone’s unsigned band chart on onechance.com.
The Alps perform a live session for XFM Claire Sturgess Exposure part 1 on 7th December. |
