{"id":4713,"date":"2012-01-25T17:18:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2017-03-01T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:01:14","slug":"new-noise-fun-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2012\/01\/25\/new-noise-fun-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW NOISE:  Fun Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Fun-Adults.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fun Adults\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4737\" srcset=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Fun-Adults.jpg 576w, \/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Fun-Adults-264x192.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The moment we heard the shadowy, crestfallen opening moments of &#8216;Til Sleep, Leeds quartet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundcloud.com\/funadults\">Fun Adults<\/a>&#8216;s debut single, our attention was spiked. Then, as Huw Thomas&#8217; vocals entered the fray &#8211; recalling an even-more-intoxicated Dave Longstreth (of Dirty Projectors fame) &#8211; we were busy Google-ing the band&#8217;s name for a reliable contact. The song hints at a group who don&#8217;t shy away from indulging far-afield visions. Wonderland sat down with Adults&#8217; Declan Pleydell-Pearce, who discussed for the first time Adults&#8217; intricate sound.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you form, and when?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a few previous incarnations kicking about in the West Country, we cemented our line up in Leeds and began writing from the beginning of last summer. Whilst we\u2019ve concentrated most of our time writing the songs we\u2019ll be playing live, we\u2019ve recorded one track, \u2018Til Sleep, and are looking to go into the studio next month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How would you describe your sound? It&#8217;s a finely-tuned thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Definitions can be a dangerous thing. If anything, we still feel that we\u2019re working that one out for ourselves at the moment, playing and writing as a band. We\u2019ve spent a lot of time reducing ideas down, and attempting to keep things concise. Simplicity is often hard to balance, especially considering that all four of us are writers. So if our sound is anything, it\u2019s a marriage of our electronic and acoustic influences. We won\u2019t \u2018do an electronic track\u2019, or vice versa, but there\u2019s a sense that anything that came out of us would naturally include both, as that\u2019s frankly what we love and listen to.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fusers%2F261077\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowscriptaccess=\"always\" src=\"https:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fusers%2F261077\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\"><\/embed><\/object>  <span><a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/funadults\">Latest tracks by Fun Adults<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do you feel it fits in the context of contemporary British music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d like it to fit somewhere, but perhaps not too comfortably. The context as to where we are placed is certainly not a conscious idea we have, and who and what we are likened to is essentially out of our hands. Take the contemporary releases of a band like Portishead. They manage to produce a sound which you can draw parallels to, but essentially remain unique. That sort of effect, as writers of music, is something we\u2019d always look towards and aspire to. Of course that\u2019s not to say our sound is somehow outrageously indefinable, but we just like the idea of getting on with things, without too much thought as to where we\u2019re going to be placed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you looking forward to most this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re very excited about writing more, challenging ourselves creatively, and hopefully producing better and better songs. We\u2019re just looking forward to showing people what we do, and that means playing live a fair bit, so we\u2019re excited to gig regularly in Leeds. More recording will be something we\u2019ll look to do very soon too, we\u2019re eager to get some more tracks polished off in the next month or two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any live dates planned, and when will your next release be?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe\u2019ve got a few potential gigs in the pipeline, and one confirmed with Theme Park on the 29th February at The Cockpit. We\u2019re also penciled in for Live at Leeds in May. As we\u2019re going into the studio next month, we\u2019ll just see what follows from there, in terms of releases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you produce the music yourself? How do you qualify for this role?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the moment our rhythm section Kyle and Dan tend to do most of the production. \u2018Til Sleep was originally produced by Dan, but we\u2019ve had some help from our friend Tom Howe with it too.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nName your five favourite bands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Talking Heads<br \/>\nJ Dilla<br \/>\nBonobo<br \/>\nPrince<br \/>\nGrizzly Bear<\/p>\n<p><strong>And films&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan Jacobs [Drums]: Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind<br \/>\nKyle Molleson [Bass]: The Jungle Book<br \/>\nHuw Thomas [Guitar and Vocals]: Days of Heaven<br \/>\nDeclan Pleydell-Pearce [Guitar and Vocals]: Four Lions<\/p>\n<p>The image is a band portrait, by Dan Jacobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Fun-Adults\/182782821750511\">Fun Adults<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Words: Jack Mills<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment we heard the shadowy, crestfallen opening moments of &#8216;Til Sleep, Leeds quartet Fun Adults&#8216;s debut single, our attention was spiked. 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