MySpace Trawl – A Cup Of Tea
Cups of tea can’t make songs can they? Well, no they can’t.
Whilst we think it would be nothing short of amazing to see a couple of tea bags, a splash of milk, a spoon and a sweetener somehow create music, it hasn’t happened just yet.
We assume that A Cup Of Tea are named after something their favourite non-alcoholic beverage or because most people have A Cup Of Tea on a daily basis. If that’s the case, then there’s an easy piece of marketing down! Floating somewhere between folktronica and dancetastic grooves, the band are another tiny treasure locked away in the UK electronic scene.
It strikes us a bit strange really. If a band doesn’t seem to have a continual blasting beat contained in their song, then they won’t find success with a mainstream audience. Recent years have seen the demise of a Best Dance Act from award ceremonies like The Brit Award. There is plenty going on, but not like in the heyday of the nineties when acts like Orbital, The Chemical Brothers and Underworld made their pounding anthems.
Today’s electronic music scene has evolved for the better, but seemingly not for a commercial audience. Listening to A Cup Of Tea there are wonderful textured layers that have clearly seen the creators – Gaz and Stu, agonisingly slave over. Gone are the blistering beats, replaced with swirling sounds that combine guitars, drums that sound like they weren’t created off a machine, murmuring synths and delayed glitch.
A Cup Of Tea even have the creative agenda to make a live performance truly unique and special. Poking around their blog and live pictures, they seemingly want to do more than press play on a laptop and drop in the occasional effect. Miles of wire and dozens of complicated looking pieces of hardware join them on stage.
Whilst new and emerging UK electronic acts seem to find it hard to break into the mainstream, we yet again have an example of outstanding musical creativeness. A Cup Of Tea could easily sell out venues with their sound, but there are yet to be picked up on.
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