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A.C. Acoustics

Real Name:
Paul Campion, Caz Riley, Dave Gormley, Mark Raine
Profile:
Critically acclaimed Scottish indie rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1990.
Arguably now a spent force, ac acoustics briefly flirted with a breakthrough in the mid-late 1990s. They were widely championed by the music press and by peers such as Placebo.

At their peak they combined dense, fuzz-heavy riffage with cryptic, poetic lyrics, before later introducing keyboards and moving into a sparser, more repetition-based direction. Initially, they owed a debt to the Jesus And Mary Chain, The - blending furious white-noise with early Pavement-style experimentation and augmenting their two guitar, bass and drums instrumentation with saxophones and violins.
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Discography

Releases:
Sweatlodge (7", Blu)   Elemental Records 1993
Able Treasury (MiniAlbum) (3 versions)   Elemental Records ... 1994
Hand Passes Plenty (CD, EP, Dig)   Elemental Records 1994
Hand Passes Plenty (12")   Elemental Records 1994
Stunt Girl (CD, Maxi)   Elemental Records 1996
Stunt Girl (7", Blu)   Elemental Records 1996
I Messiah, Am Jailer (CD, Single, Dig)   Elemental Records 1997
Like Ribbons (CD, Maxi)   Yoyo Recordings 1998
Like Ribbons (7")   Yoyo Recordings 1998
She's With Stars (CD, Maxi)   Yoyo Recordings 1998
She's With Stars (7")   Yoyo Recordings 1998
Victory Parts (CD, Album)   Elemental Records 1998
Crush (CD, Maxi)   Cooking Vinyl 2000
Understanding Music (Album) (2 versions)   Cooking Vinyl ... 2000
O (CD, Album)   Cooking Vinyl 2002
Production:
¡Cinco Años! (CD, Comp) Love Lies Broken Pieces Trance Syndicate Records 1995
Best Of Indie Top 20 (Vols 16-22) (CD, Comp) Hand Passes Plenty Beechwood Music 1996
Appears On:
New Voices Vol. 14 (CD, Comp, Car) Hand Passes Empty Rolling Stone (Germany) 1997
The Spring Collection '97 (CD) Stunt Girl Vox Magazine 1997
Tracks Appear On:
Indie Top 20 Volume 21 (CD, Comp) Hand Passes Plenty Beechwood Music 1995
Un Printemps 95 (CD, Comp, Promo, Car) Hand Passes Plenty Les Inrockuptibles, PIAS France 1995
¡Cinco Años! (CD, Comp) Love Lies Broken Pieces Trance Syndicate Records 1995
Best Of Indie Top 20 (Vols 16-22) (CD, Comp) Hand Passes Plenty Beechwood Music 1996
New Voices Vol. 14 (CD, Comp, Car) Hand Passes Empty Rolling Stone (Germany) 1997
The Spring Collection '97 (CD) Stunt Girl Vox Magazine 1997
Cooking Vinyl In Rockdelux (CD, Promo) Crush Sinedín Music 2000
Delicatessen 3 ● Cooking Vinyl Sampler 2001 (CD, Comp, Smplr) Luke One Cooking Vinyl 2001
Delicatessen 4 (CD, Album, Smplr) 16 4 2010 (Single Edit) Cooking Vinyl 2002
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YouTube Videos

AC Acoustics - Stunt Girl