“You ever see those cobwebs made by spiders on LSD?” asks Late of the Pier’s Andrew Faley. “That’s the closest thing I can think of to what our songs sound like.” The British four-piece formed while the boys were still at school, though they first introduced themselves to the world in mid-2006 with a single on London label Moshi Moshi. Since then they have signed to the legendary Parlophone imprint and are all set to release their debut full-length this summer.
     Having grown up in a house brimming with noisemakers, singer Samuel Eastgate has had his share of musical influences. His father was a computer programmer by day, but in his off-time would show his son an assortment of weird music programs, so that by age 12, Samuel was pretty clued up on his techno. But, Eastgate says, lowering his tone, “He was also a New Wave one-hit wonder” — which explains not only the host of guitars cluttering his family attic, but also the assortment of outdated synths and samplers that are the trademark of Late of the Pier’s sound.
     Recorded with veteran DJ Erol Alkin over a period of several months, the forthcoming album reworks much of their existing material. How did they know when they were done? “When the beats and melodies started taking up so much space that songs became more about what wasn’t there — the negative spaces between sound.” Spoken like a true artist. Welcome to the sound of music unravelling.