Platform Records

THE FIRM release their debut single Dismal Results on March 9th 2009.

Already with a firm following in their home base of London, The Firm - consisting of Ross Liddle (Voice & Guitar); Chris P Willsher (Lead Guitar and Piano); Julia Sieradzki (Bass Guitar) and Yameen Khan (Drums), release their debut single on Whimsical Records.

Produced by Matt Terry (The Enemy’s 'We'll Live And Die In These Towns'), Dismal Results is a dooming, sardonic warning layered over textured guitars. Liddle’s laconic vocals strut over Willsher's fuzzy and frenetic guitars, sneering truths that only he seems to know, while the rhythm section of Sieradzki’s bass and Khan’s unrelenting drums drive the track forward and offers a counterpoint by rooting the histrionic guitar turn. All the instruments converging lend the track an immediacy and a gleefully sinister quality. Ostensibly, the band create the sort of sonic collages that Creation bands such as Jesus & Mary Chain, House of Love and Ride used to be known for, albeit played with the style and flair of The Smiths, Suede and Verve. And while the ghosts of post-punk luminaries such as Magazine, The Sound and The Cure lurk in the belly of the track – there are sunnier references almost akin to The Kinks, and the band’s ear for a pop melody gives it a contemporary rejuvenation.

The single is backed by studio and demo versions of Round The Rim – a scuzzy, reverberating track, referencing modern day post-punk revivalists Interpol, with twitchy percussion and an impossibly epic and affirming guitar riff.

Equally influenced by the wit of Oscar Wilde, the darkness of post-punk, the intensity of shoegazing and the true spirit of punk – The Firm has created a muscular, compelling and stark sound. You won’t be able to 'look away' or turn it off – in fact, we defy you to.

(Claire Gilligan) www.myspace.com/thefirmband