Artist description A highly imaginative and creative project called The Macro-Invertebrates. They are a two-piece recording outfit based on an island known as Hope (Hope Island, QLD). With a strong emphasis on songwriting, guitar layering, and lyrical attribution-The Macro-Invertebrates are surely a creative force to be reckoned with. "Dream Indie", the concept for their unique style pronounced from the very lips of frontman Levon himself, is one way to describe the essence of their sound landscapes. "Born Global" is an accurate description of the line-up of this group. A resident artist (formerly of the U.S.A.), nucleus of the project Levon writes lyrics and guitar for the songs before offering them for enhancement. Josh who is Australian, an artist with a guitar adds the cue, colour(s), and chroma to the songs before they are offered as finished products. It's the influences that drive and motivate this partnership. Their ABCs of influences include: Arab Strap, Echo & The Bunnymen, and The Cure. Furthermore, their desire to record under the umbrella of a record company that shares the same values and philosophies as they do is also a dream that they would like to realise.

Music Style Dream Indie

Musical Influences Arab Strap, Echo & The Bunnymen, and The Cure

Similar Artists Nico, Ride, Space Needle, Wheat, Slowdive

Artist History Formed in late 2001 as a recording project.

Group Members Levon has been involved in numerous bands and recording projects. From 1993-1995 he played guitar as a founding member of There Goes Atlantis and contributed to much of the group's unique sounds and song writings. Levon's solo career began under the title Twitch, which would carry on for four consecutive albums (1995-1999). Other side projects Levon has participated in include: Insect Graveyard, Echo-Star, and SleaseKitten. Josh's interests were initially in the more technical aspects of the guitar, before absorbing the likes of Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, and later the styles of Johnny Marr, Bernard Butler, and Nick McCabe. He first played guitar for Entropy, before involving himself with basement rockers The Room Downstairs.

Instruments acoustic and electric guitars plus voice(s)

Albums Self titled EP

Press Reviews Band: The Macro-Invertebrates Album: Self Titled EP (2002) Label: Mountain Fighting Publication: New Generation Press Writer: Alan Thomas Copyright NGP 2002 All Rights Reserved What happens when you strip away the body, and you strip away the soul to find out what exists beyond them? The new Macro-Invertebrates EP plays like a handbook for this process, leaving them aroused from their discovery of the act in it's self. The feeling you get from this EP is like hearing "So Young" by Suede for the first time; it is raw, pure, and focused like a laser. In the most uncomfortable way your emotions become its auto-manipulated puppet, forcing you to play-act through it's cascading melodrama until it has run its course. It does not require your consent or participation. The opening track "In the Year of..." works from the inside out, like an animal who has it's leg caught in a trap and must acknowledge the inevitable loss of it's limb in order to be free. With this EP they have focused on a new lush simplicity, that leaves out all unnecessary instrumentation, but grandly layers some of the most glorious guitar and vocal landscapes from the natural world, not yet equaled by electronic music. Each track is more complex in design then the last, but they act as "very important" steps bleeding into each other, to lead you to the epic "Lesbian". This is the first official indie classic of the 2000's. Where other modern momentary classics will wither from their lack of originality and reliance on revival, it is originality and sheer beauty that this song will be remembered for. This is one of the most promising new bands of 2002, if this EP is any indication of what they are capable of, their full length LP will be an exercise in record-label planned obsolescence sending you back to the second hand music store to sell all of the other albums this one makes unnecessary and primitive.

Location Hope Island, Queensland - Australia

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