Name: Growing Eyes Becoming String
Brand: The Telescopes

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-FUZZ-203C

Colour

Clear

Colour details

Frosted Clear Vinyl

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl with Printed Inner.

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2024-03-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060978391246

Total Cap

Clear LP

Artist

The Telescopes

Genre US

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label US

Fuzz Club

The Telescopes is a renowned music group that has been led by various talented individuals throughout its existence. With past members including Joanna Doran, David Fitzgerald, Robert Brooks, Dominic Dillon, and Bridget Hayden, the band has consistently delivered unique and captivating sounds to their audience. Their music can be described as experimental and innovative, pushing boundaries and exploring new sonic territories. The Telescopes have left an indelible mark on the music industry with their distinctive style and unwavering commitment to artistic expression.

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Growing Eyes Becoming String is the sixteenth studio album from British noise-rock pioneers The Telescopes. Originally recorded over two sessions back in 2013 – one over a harsh Berlin winter in the Brian Jonestown Massacre studio with Fabien Leseure, and a second back in Leeds with early Telescopes producer Richard Formby – it’s a lost treasure that nearly never was. Succumbing to a hard-drive crash nearly a decade ago, the sessions were presumed lost and soon forgotten, until now. Miraculously rescued from the digital ether and finished by founding member Stephen Lawrie in his own studio over the pandemic, the album is now finally set for release via Fuzz Club and reveals another side to where The Telescopes were at in 2013.

Where their physical output at the time mostly consisted of experimental noise improvisations, so far removed from any obvious structure, Growing Eyes Becoming String shows how The Telescopes – Lawrie backed by London experimental unit One Unique Signal – were actually creating more song-based music in a parallel existence. Across its seven tracks are all the trademarks of quality that longtime fans associate with The Telescopes’ music. Solid songs, melody, harmony, noise, dissonance, improvisation, experimentation and an all-embracing journey beyond the realm of natural vision.

“The objective with both sessions was to go in blind and be entirely in the moment”, Lawrie recalls: “There were no preconceived ideas, everything was written as it went along. Much like our drive to Berlin, through an intense blizzard with almost zero visibility, we were relying on the heightened instinct of being entirely in the now.” The result is another masterfully hypnotic set that matches its more melodic spaced-out moments against heavy drone-rock blow-outs: “Loaded with guitars, noise and melody, swirling around pounding repetition, this is a more vocal document of where The Telescopes head was at during that time.”

Growing Eyes Becoming String

Music US

Discover Growing Eyes Becoming String by The Telescopes. A lost treasure from British noise-rock pioneers, now rescued and set for release via Fuzz Club.