Search - The Local Division :: Pure Electric Light EP

The Local Division is named after a group of music junkies from opposite sides of the pond, who united to create music, based on their common love for the English shoegaze; movement of the late 80's and early 90s. Ian Christian, a singer songwriter hailing from the Midlands area in the UK and Matthew Rhee from Los Angeles, a star guitarist with loads of pedals, met at a Mark Gardener show in Nottingham whilst Matthew was on his Anglo rock pilgrimage paying homage to the Stone Roses - a U.K. invasion vacation of pub crawls, and Madchester music etc. The pair recorded a couple of songs in a dirty cellar called the Newarke. Three weeks later they emerged with the raw tracks of their debut album, which was later mixed in Los Angeles, by Mark Raines, a friend of Ian's long time U.S. manager and friend, Anita Rivas. The debut album is a beautiful noise...Anglo based pop symphonies with sometimes dark lyrical memoirs of lost relationships and the highs and lows of life in the inner city of the music scene. The songs are diverse musically, sometimes personal lyrically, with Ian's rhythm guitar and vocals as the common thread that runs through the album. Soundscaping guitar textures fill some of the canvas and the rest is occupied by to the point, paint by numbers and pub chants of sarcasm about their generation. Almost Pistols without the politics, shoegazer without the polish, pop without the poseurs, it's music you can move to and vibe with.