New Starts - More Break-Up SongsNew Starts are a spikey, fresh sounding band recalling the poppier ends of new wave and angular guitar rock. Their influences include The Cars, Breeders, Bay City Rollers, The Velvet Underground and ZZ Top. Lead singer Darren Hayman has his own long career running from the late 90s with John Peel faves Hefner to his more recent thematic and historical albums dealing with the English Civil War, William Morris and forgotten rural idylls. I wanted a band

collage-like effect

And in case you thought they'd gone soft

recorded against the backdrop of the Johnson and Yamada’s move from the Californian coast to the heights of Colorado

to properly record the demos they had amassed at Wilco’s famed studio

but “of the century”

platform shoes and pimp hats were the order of the day

Seasons in the Abyss' musical style has been compared by critics to the band's previous two albums

The lyrics were written by Tommy Hall

From the undulatory (and classic) bassline at the intro to the last breathy notes

the Methodist Television and Radio Film Commission

All pieces though are characterized by the constantly pulsating rhythm

even twentieth-century avant-garde composition were all utilized