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Lots of musicians claim to be influenced by visual art, usually in order to make themselves look clever - Found actually are visual artists, who happen to make pop music too. Based in Edinburgh, they’re a kind of environmental art pop band, maybe, sampling sounds from the world around them and then cutting and pasting them into songs. They’ve done a show at the Royal Scottish Academy where they got the audience to throw paper aeroplanes at beams of light and turned the sampled noises into music; they’ve made music with sewing machines too (don’t ask me how) and done an eccentric, absolutely brilliant multimedia show with the comedy duo Noble and Silver for the BBC Electric Proms. But they’ve also done ‘proper’ gigs, at T in the Park and Connect, so you never quite know what to expect from them - but you always know it’s going to be worth seeing or hearing. They’re releasing their second album in November; I can’t wait to hear it.

In short, they’re the kind of band that constantly make me think ‘Bastards, I wish WE had thought of that.’ And make me want to raise my game. Which is healthy.

Andrew

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