About Group (featuring Hot Chip, This Heat, and Spiritualized members) to release Start and Complete on Domino

About Group (featuring Hot Chip, This Heat, and Spiritualized members) to release Start and Complete on Domino

On April 26, the ‘supergroup’ known as About Group will release Start and Complete, their second album, on Domino. But what’s so ‘super’ about them? Well, aside from its members — which boasts Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Charles Hayward (This Heat), John Coxon (Spiritualized, Spring Heel Jack), and Pat Thomas (who has played with Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley, etc.) — the group went into the studio and.. aw, fuck it, let me just quote the press release:

The songs were written by Taylor over the last few years and some, but not all of them, were given out as a CD in piano/vocal demo form for the other members of the group to hear a few days before the studio date. The idea was that no one band member would know the songs well enough to have specific parts, or be prevented from playing something like the first ideas that came into their head.

Pretty super if you ask me. Check out a clip of About Group performing “You’re No Good” over at the Chocolate Grinder.

Start and Complete tracklist:

01. Married To The Sea (a)
02. Don’t Worry
03. With Each New Day
04. Repair Man
05. Lay Me Down
06. A Perspective
07. There’s a Way To End This Run of Doubt
08. A Sinking Song
09. Nothing But Words
10. You’re No Good
11. Rough and Smooth
12. Start and Complete
13. Dreamt I Saw You Late Last Night
14. Married To The Sea (b)

• Domino: http://www.dominorecordco.com

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