Ones To Watch – Worship

Alt. with a big love of textured electronics

Right you worthless lot, get on your knees and prepare to Worship! As band names go this one surely brings a hefty dose of drama…or Christian rock leanings, but luckily for us it’s the former. Understanding the grandeur and universal tone of their name the group create fittingly dramatic and epic songs, visual journeys through a sea of electronics and guitar washes. Formed a year-and-a-half ago after the foursomes’ respective bands didn’t pan out they did what all new bands naturally do, namely retreat to a secluded Norwegian cabin in the woods.

“We wanted to get away from it all,” says frontman Tim Alexander, “what the other bands were doing, so we found this residential studio – and it was cheaper than over here actually.” Locked away the band had time to experiment and create their own atmospheric brand of noise; “Atmosphere creates the song as much the lyrics, it’s fifty-fifty. We really hope that’s something we don’t lose when we make the debut, to get pressured into change things – it’s hard to get something drenched in reverb on the radio.”

With appearances at Glastonbury and Radio One support for blinding track ‘Collateral’ we don’t thing the band should worry too much, even if the song’s meaning aren’t instantly obvious – “We look at the grey areas, love and hate is very down the middle, humans being unsure is more realistic… weird stories from the Internet are useful”.

So what does the end of 2011 bring for Worship? “We’re talking about going off for another month, another chance to see what we come out with, then the album early next year, not much time for touring this side of Christmas.” So back into the woods again, where more tales of sirens and such can be prepared for the unexpecting public. Amen.

Words by Sam Walker-Smart
Photo by Samuel John Butt

Where: Reading
What: Alt. with a big love of textured electronics.
Unique Fact: Track ‘Night Owl’ got its name due to the bird-like sample used at the song’s end.
Get 3 songs: ‘House Of Glass’, ‘Collateral’, ‘In The Air’

Worship play at the launch party for the next issue of Clash Magazine on 10th November at The Lexington in London. Find out more HERE

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