SOUNDS OF SYSTEM BREAKDOWN
DUBLIN, COUNTY DUBLIN
Image Copyright: Naomi McArdle 2008
Sounds of System Breakdown are Rob Costello (synths, guitar, vocal, retail), Adam Jensen (drums, backing vocals, counselling) and Richy Kelly (guitar, synths, backing vocals, customer service). They play electro post-punk that is equally at home on dance floors and in band venues.
The small festival circuit is their bread and butter, having played HWCH, Life, Knockanstockan, Sibin, Mantua and Solas in the last few years. But 2009 is the year they finally scraped together the money, equipment and time to independently record their debut album, slated for release in mid-september.
"Superior electropop beeps and bleeps..." Jim Carroll's New Music - The Ticket
"Connected have been backing Rob's sonic delights with Sounds of System Beakdown for yonks now and he's getting better and better all the time. His post punk electro clash noizes will get you dancing. There ain't no finer electro in the land - not to be missed!" Connected Magazine
"Dublin's answer to James Murphy, jack of all musical trades Rob Costello's Sound Of System Breakdown, expanded to a three-piece last year, are set to release their first material to a city already in love with fellow electro multitasker Jape. If 'Vinager Joe' and 'The Secret's Out' - MySpace uploads we've constantly returned to over some two years - are anything to go by, expect something quite ambitious indeed." Padraic Halpin - Ragged Words
