Fearlessly passionate and fiercely intelligent, Comet Gain are back with their brand new album Howl of the Lonely Crowd to be released via Fortuna POP! on 16 May 2011, with production by Edwyn Collins and Ryan Jarman of The Cribs.
Led by songwriter David Feck, Comet Gain have released a string of critically acclaimed records on Kill Rock Stars, Track & Field and What’s Your Rupture? - albums such as Tigertown Pictures, Réalistes, City Fallen Leaves and 2008’s singles collection Broken Record Prayers establishing the band as one of the most fearlessly passionate and fiercely intelligent British bands around. The current line up comprises David Charlie Feck (vocals, guitar), ex-Huggy Bear bassist Jon Slade (guitar), Rachel Evans (vocals), Kay Ishikawa (bass), ex-Morrissey/The Meteors drummer Woodie Taylor (percussion), Anne Laure Guillain (keyboards), and Ben Phillipson of The Eighteenth Day Of May (guitar).
Unapologetically literate and emotional, Comet Gain seek out inspiration and ballast as much in the music of the girl-group era pop, heartfelt Americana, british post-punk, and 60s psych rock, as in the words of the known and forgotten beat poets, kitchen sink dramas, and new-wave French arthouse cinema. From The Modern Lovers, Felt, The Go-Betweens, Big Star, and the Byrds, to Kerouac, Shelagh Delaney, and Godard, the band are influenced by an incessant drive to “distill the spirit, and those moments of musical defiance” by “recalling old stories of friends, of being lonely, and what kept you sane; finding a common ground, taking a deep breath and then picking up our guitars and singing these songs.“
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