Artist description 4 Record Decks + 2xDJs, a Guitarist, Bass and a vocalist. .Everything we do is done live, and improvised.There are no overdubs on any of our recordings and most of the tracks here are the first takes.

Music Style Alternative, Experimental, Punk, Basically it's Jazz in disguise..

Musical Influences Can, Decension, Sonic Youth, Shellac, ATR, Ani Difranco, Cage, Behrens, Pil, Hugh Metcalfe, Ljova

Similar Artists Faust, Sonic Youth, Diamanda Galas, Laub, Siouxie, Cranes, Zappa, Beefheart, Tortoise

Artist History Long and diverse.

Group Members Core : Anna, Rob, Tim, Stray. Collaborators : Lev Zhurbin, Yumi Hara-Cawkwell, Hugh Metcalfe, Squid Tempest, Zula.

Instruments 4 Decks, 2 Effects boxes, 20/4 Mixer, Bass guitar, Lead Guitars, Drums, Windsynth, Keyboards, mic's x 2.

Press Reviews '..Anna's haunting voice has every bit as much conviction as Siouxie or Liz Fraser from the Cocteau Twins did on their debuts. On occasion it loses it's way, but the sheer unbridled creativity running all the way through more than make up for it. If Steve Reich released this record, it'd be heralded as a classic from his naive linear cacophony period... File under : motherfucking Avantgarde' - 'Big' George Webley. At first The Irritants have a child-like lightness and silliness, but over time a strange, disturbing, unearthly element appears. Playful singing echoes over strange percussion. - Marc K Nervous female vocals exude tension in a fashion similar to Beth Gibbons of Portishead. The Irritants' music, meanwhile, is fleshed out by two DJ's working the decks (er.. nope - Stray) to create a constellation of nebulous bleeps, falling beats, spasmodic scratches and samples. Fans of Air and Massive Attack will be momentarily thrilled to discover this band. Then they will, of course, immediately resume their world-weary and supremely jaded facial expression and blithely light up. - Chad Driscoll. Innovative and genuinely interesting music - Verity Sharp (Late Junction Radio 3). oh, and Django Bates thinks we're

Location Milton keynes, Bucks - United Kingdom

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