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Genres: Indie / Rock / Pop

Location: Oxford, United Kingdom

Stats: 778 fans / 81,254 plays / 1 plays today

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14 tracks

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Members: Stuart Smith, Tim Collis, Chris Collis, Jamie Cooper

Oxford is home to the oldest University in the English-speaking world, but more recently has been acknowledged as a musical hotbed with a habit of producing some of the most vital bands around today (Radiohead and Foals, to name a few). Their latest export is This Town Needs Guns, a band being hailed as the darling buds of the thriving UK indie scene. The band have toured across Europe with the likes of I Was A Cub Scout, Meet Me In St Louis, Rolo Tomassi and Maps & Atlases and the release of 2007's split EP with Cats And Cats And Cats garnered critical acclaim from fans and press alike.

This Town Needs Guns entered the studio in April 2008, setting out to find an intricate balance between indie rock, catchy pop and technical prowess, all while ignoring the lure of special effects and studio wizardry. Through this process, their debut full-length Animals was born; a collection of songs that bring to light the band's pure, clever and earnest song writing ability. Tim Collis' guitar sounds as though it's being caressed by 6 hands as his brother, Chris, flings his sticks around the drum kit not wanting to leave any tiny patch un-touched. Bassist Dan Adams completes the rhythm section with his dancey, jazz influenced bass lines while Stuart Smith's vocals dip and soar, taking this record from thought provoking depths to sky-scraping triumphs.

Animals was released in the US on Sargent House on March 10, 2009

PRESS:

"Animals, sees the Oxford-based indie kids take care of the wizardry, combining math-rock time signatures, intricate guitar / bass tapestries and a rip-roaring vocal that swoops above the virtuoso sonics like a musical trapeze artists. The tracks themselves retain a fine balance between the intellectual and emotional, the cerebral and the visceral."
-Rock Sound

"Opening Song 'Chinchilla' is an intricate Foals-gone-emo sigh of a rocker. 'Baboon' brings the math-rock virtuoso further to the fore, pushing it and 'Badger' atmospherically in the realm of Mogwai or Dirty Projectors. Showing they can do nice choruses when they want is 'Lemur', which is like a brainy Snow Patrol."
-NME

"When This Town Needs Gun hit their mark they sound stylish, sussed and like reformed mathcore men Minus The Bear covering seminal Mancunian miserablists The Smiths. Good, in other words Remember the name This Town Needs Guns. Although in fairness, it's hard to forget."
-Kerrang

"Study Animals with the diligence it deserves and you'll walk away with a knowledge you never expected."
-AbsolutePunk.net

Comments

Charlie (; said:
You guys are amazing :D Jun 22
Otter said:
chinchilla (: May 23
sheemal visun said:
love! May 16
Jenny said:
Saw you guys today at soundwave in brisbane. Never heard of you before, but absolutely loved your set!! Feb 26
Aw5c17a96xANh52dD0DKr4haPYP6I said:
Animals is an amazing album. Please make moreeeeee! Dec 08
3825becca said:
"You know in time as much would’ve happened to us, our feelings blow out like a lamp light. " Dude... you guys... i love you! Nov 29
AirrrInnn:] said:
^_^ Nov 26
Feffi(: said:
love love love this town needs guns :) Oct 22
jOe said:
come to nj Oct 01
Anthony said:
Instant fan...keep rockin! Sep 24
Kyletard said:
i love baboon Sep 02
Lilly said:
i love yalls music...im actually wearing a shirt that yall signed at the atlanta show this past june...it is one of my favorites! =] Aug 27
jessicaaa ♥ said:
♥ May 29
MarissaLynn.™ said:
Whoa :) May 17
ree said:
i love PANDA! Apr 28