THE DYING SECONDS
DUBLIN, COUNTY DUBLIN
To some people Electronic music is impersonal. It’s just an orgy of numbers, dancing together and doing as they’re told. But have you ever wondered what would happen if you took apart the machine and tried to replace the mother-board with a human heart?
Recording together as The Dying Seconds since early 2007, David Cantan and Jack Quilligan have recently been bolstered by the arrival of brothers Mark and Stephen Rooney and the other-worldly Naomi Moriarty. Together they produce the sort of warm electronic grooves that would have Kraftwerk calling an emergency team meeting in their space station. Drawing influence from a long line in sonic pioneering, Orbital to Aphex twin, via Radiohead and Death Cab for Cutie, The Dying Seconds have their fingers on a lot of mechanical pulses. Previously in indie gang Vemorana, the group took stock of their lot and turned to the cold landscape that is electronic music and began to slash liberally at the scene with an arsenal of assorted instruments: Piano, Trumpet, Violin, Melodica, Mandolin, Guitar and Tunisian Bagpipes to name but a few.
The result is a masterpiece of fusion. You get the raw noise of honest and lyrical rock and roll, and the unforgiving and intense virtual world of beats and bleeps. Think Dntel and Boards of Canada, sharing an afternoon tryst in some pay by the hour motel with Do Make Say Think and Elbow. It might sound sleazy, but it's not. Well, only if it actually happened.
After releasing their debut album (for free) in 2008, which has illuminated the Blogosphere, the band have recently followed this up with "Some Grand Romantic Gesture"; an EP which has already featured on Paul Mcloone's Today FM show and on Phantom FM. The Dying Seconds are one for the future. Handy, as it sounds like they're actually from there.
Oh, and they don’t actually make weapons by the way.
