All good things have divided people.

If what Mr Blonde hears is ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ the policeman (not cop) is listening to ‘Work It Out’ by Gindrinker. Clearly they are never going to agree. But it’s the policeman who is having the better day.

Never actually formed in the traditional sense, but together since 2004, Gindrinker are a Cardiff based band featuring Mr D.C. Gates on improvised cornet and vocals, and Mr G. McGraf on guitar, drum machine and sampler wrangling. It’s fair to say that the individuals of the band have been doing what they were doing separately and would have continued to do so (industrial noise and playwriting, respectively) had not fate played its hand.

Sounding like an argument between an Alan Bennett monologue and the sound of a loading ZX Spectrum, and influenced by The Cramps, Suicide, The Fall, Throbbing Gristle and Datblygu, Gindrinker have been terrifying, delighting and repulsing audiences ever since.

Some will just never understand the inherent drama of the collapse of the Weimar republic re-imagined as a Hovis commercial, but there’s definitely something of the everyday along with some opulent wickedness at play here.

Depending on who else is on the bill, Gindrinker are either a pop band or an avant-garde act, but definitely an occasion. Having already supported The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Super Furry Animals, Whitehouse, Los Campesinos!, Thomas Truax, Future of the Left and The Fall, we foresee many good things from this delineate duo.

Often billed as Cardiff’s answer to The Fall, Gindrinker have never asked a question that demanded such a riposte. Businessman Records are proud to present one of the noisiest vinyl releases we’ve ever heard!

"A terrifying crash of acerbic lyrics, chainsaw guitars, muddy beats, and (if you're really lucky) the occasional cornet." – Huw Stephens Radio 1

"Cardiff's best cult band" - nme

"bleak cabaret turn" - clwb.net

“Their sharply observational lyrics are delivered in a Mark E. Smith yell/drawl/mumble over lo-fi programmed beats and a simple echoing guitar reminiscent of Suicide.” - Jocelyn Harris, Artrocker Magazine

"Plan B suggests you pretend you heard of Gindrinker first File next to: Throbbing Gristle, The Fall, a jar of maggots." - Louis Pattison, Plan B Magazine

Work It Out/Ayn Rand Says - Double A side 7" single. 

Out now, available here.

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