The Enright House
A Maze and Amazement
© 2007 Mark V. Roberts (9421900974061)
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A complex and dense, but highly accessible mixture of pop, post-rock and electronica, described as anything from "pop as pop should be" to "skittery percussion, ethereal drones with metallic resonances, and disturbingly atmospheric sounds."
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Reviews for "A Maze and Amazement":
"A lyrical labyrinth of weird computer bleeps, pretty pop, indie cool and industrial electronica." - THE PRESS
"A Maze and Amazement LP is a beautiful album, complex and dense, but highly accessible. It’s a languid dream, shifting between melancholy and uplift, heavy on mood and texture. (...) It’s ambitious and gorgeous to listen to. While approaching this music from an intellectual angle, it’s also a stirring piece of work that reveals more and more to you every listen... 4/5 stars." - Lumiere Arts Reader
"Lush flowing arrangements scattered with intensity... It's wonderful. Buy it now and see them live... 8.3/10" - Under The Radar
"Some of the most innovative and beautiful music to emerge from these dark lands in many moons." - Cheese On Toast
"One of the years best hidden secrets." - Dominion Post
"The ideal soundtrack for people to break up and fall apart to." - The Critic
"I immediately fell in love with this and couldn't stop playing it. It's pop as pop should be and one of the finest little records I've heard come out of New Zealand." - A Low Hum
Bio
The Enright House is probably something of chimera in terms of sound: instead of being one third lion, one third she-goat, and one third serpent, however, we are probably more one part indie-pop, one rather large part post-rock and one rather not-so-large part electronica.
The press have described our sound as anything from "pop as pop should be" to "skittery percussion, ethereal drones with metallic resonances, and disturbingly atmospheric sounds...". Think Death Cab For Cutie meets Mogwai. Sigur Ros meets Pinback. Philip Glass meets a distortion pedal. Poetry meets numbers. Up meets down. Light meets the drain-pipe.
In performance, The Enright House incorporates live and mechanized drums, synths, field recordings, poetry and a lot of guitars, the latter of which are typically manipulated with bows, screws, bottle caps, glass rods, chopsticks, copper wire, stainless steal picks, some love, some violence, and a handful of derelict effects.
The Enright House, having been dreamed up and slept over by Mark Roberts, has now grown into a powerful four-piece, including the lovely Simon Gemmill (drums), Evan Schaare (synths) and Thomas Lambert (guitars). The Enright House is currently based in Christchurch, New Zealand.