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WE ARE THE OCTAGONISTS
9 Tracks. Available NOW.
CDA  £3.00 (RRP £6.99)

The debut album from Exeters An Emergency ‘ We Are The Octagonists’ is a frantic, fraught and more refined take on all things post-punk and post-hardcore – that vast landscape where anything goes so long as it ’s plugged straight into the mains.
The album was recorded, produced and designed by the band before grabbing the attention of Captains Of Industry label, who heard traces of The Pop Group, Bloc Party and fellow up-and-coming Brit bands such as Forward! Russia and This Aint Vegas in An Emergency's tangled bass-less squall.



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

1. Terror!
2. Irony Nein Danke
3. Killer Bob
4. We Speak Modal
5. Stability Mock-up
6. Too Cool For Love
7. Paper Tigers
8. Octagonists
9. Kevin Bacon


“This Exeter-based trio know their shit, and their shit is punk-fucking-rock. Last spotted by this writer playing on a bill topped by Q And Not U, they clatter and crash their way through eight tracks in just 16 minutes. Early come on like DC’s favourite quirk-punk sons. ‘First And Last’, meanwhile, sounds like Les Savy Fav dissecting the Owls’ songbook with guitars being stabbed at with screwdrivers giving way to prog-rock flourishes/ It’s post-punk without being overly nostalgic - taking from the past without soiling reputations.” 8/10
Mike Diver, Rock Sound, December ‘04


“Who needs bassists? Not, An Emergency, that’s for sure. Such an island of control and serenity would have stuck out like a sore thumb in their unforgiving, intense set. On ‘New Math’ the artillery bombardment that has been belting out from the drum kit for once relents down to a wonderful dual cymbal anticlimax, dragging both guitarists down with it, before they break free and explode again. It’s punk rock, you could dance to it, you could fight to it. The sound says it all really.”
Live Review by Theo Berry, www.gigwise.com, November ‘04


“Their complex and brainiac twitch-pop was an aural joy…a duel-guitar, duel-throated assault that invokes the spirit of everything from yelping 60s punk to 70s new-wave to Hotsnakes to every fucked-up little artcore band on Swami and Dischord. The absence of bass guitar allows the band a creative freedom which they positively revel in.”
Live Review by Backbone, 24-7 Magazine, September ‘04