Excitingly fucked-up indie-pop.
Download the band's track "Biscuit Tin" from their website now.
Since late 2004, tangled indie guitar trio THE MARES have been consolidating their sound; a mixture of punk, blues, folk and dance influences. It all culminates in the kind of indie pop that translates quickly to the dance floor. But to give you a better idea of it all, let's take a trip back in time...
Singer, songwriter, guitarist and founding member Jamie Hanson was splitting his time between the gutters of Hobart, Melbourne and Berlin, and spending more time drinking than on completing his philosophy degree.
At some point during the ensuing haze, it seemed like a good idea to get a band together. Enter Sydney. Enter the Nicks.
Hanson met bass player Nick Milner in a trashy club somewhere in Sydney, and the two hit it off immediately.
They started writing together, enlisting drummer Nick Cooper to round out the group. Right away the trio
started making noise at every pretentious inner city warehouse party they could find.
Having attracted the attention of Boundary Sounds, The Mares worked up a demo they called ‘Charleston'.
Tracks from this received heavy play on community radio and Triple J, following which the band blazed a trail
through the Sydney and Melbourne indie scenes, playing with chart-destroying Aussie's The Grates and
Eskimo Joe, New York art rockers Liars, with The Presets, Louis XIV, Midnight Juggernauts, Red Riders,
Expatriate and Sweden's Shout Out Louds.
Approaching their debut EP release ‘Love Billows From My Soul To Consume You Splendid People As An
Avalanche Does A Mountain', the trio have solidified their sound and have expanded their interests into new
areas, touching on thick, paranoid balladry, numb minimalism and raucous punk rock. Think Pixies; think
Television; think The Drones; think Yeah Yeah Yeahs...
The first single off the EP - Biscuit Tin - has been well received by radio, receiving national airplay on Triple J and community stations and now The Mares are ready to race into your town, and bring their gritty, trashy
aesthetic with them.
This is what press have said in the past:
"Deliciously mental" - Inpress
"Iggy Pop meets Frank Black" - Drum Media
"Wonderfully unhinged" - BMA
