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THEY KILL US FOR THEIR SPORT
2 Tracks, Bonus Video. Available NOW.
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“Hug me till you drug me, honey / Kiss me, kiss me till I'm in comatose…” - from 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley, as sampled on 'Sonambulence' Peace Burial At Sea are an art rock band from rural Northumberland and inner city Newcastle. Named after a painting by JM Turner, they are fierce and fragile, soul-sick but unrepentant.Their debut recording 'This is Such a Quiet Town' was a concept album of sorts, released in 2004 on Captains Of Industry. Over the course of ten songs it charted a psycho-geographical journey along the pulsing heartlines of the city - basking in the neon, being stalked by shadows, turning a collar to the chill. The result is a raw portrait of modern England in all its faded horror. This is an England of Big Mac boxes and 'cancer-ridden lungs', of back street deviants and skies that crack and splinter. Perpetual witching hour. Dead pigeons. A strange tang in the air... Metallic like blood.

Reviewers picked up on the Ballardian/Burroughsian beauty in such self-disgust as much they did musical reference points such as Mogwai, Slint. Aphex Twin and Radiohead. If Stanley Kubrick were still with us we'd like to think he'd approve of the unique ambient electro / crushing hardcore hybrid played by these four Winston Smiths. The album and attendant live shows received positive reviews in publications such as Metal Hammer, Rock Sound, Kerrang!, Plan B, DrownedinSound, Organ etc.

Last year saw Peace Burial At Sea tour the UK with fellow tipped sonic terrorists 65daysofstatic and also plays shows with a variety of bands including label mates Hell Is For Heroes, Aerogramme, Do Me Bad Things, Six By Seven, Future Ex Wife, and fellow up-and-coming Geordies such as Maximo Park and Kubichek! Many of the great new undergrounds acts of our time, basically.



Click on track names to play (mp3 64kbs mono.)

1. They Kill Us For Their Sport
2. B-Movie Karma
3. Eye- Heart Logic(Video)


"A brooding rock beast that flickers between pregnant pauses, elongated eruptions and menacing overtones - like some bastard offspring of Mogwai fumbling with the wasted offspring of Amen."
The Crack, June 2004

"A rewarding and individual beast whose sardonic humour and asphyxiating ambience are just about unparalleled…"
Manchester Music


"Peace Burial At Sea make all other rock music sound like antiquated bilge. Each song is like that food of the future they always promised us - a colourful pill to be popped, devoured. The future has arrived: the cyber art-punk revolt starts here."
Kerrang!, March 2004