AMPLIFIER - Mystoria (CD)

The portents were there on 'Echo Street', the follow-up to Amplifier's sprawling 2011 opus 'The Octopus', As succinct as its predecessor was labyrinthine, it was an album that cut through the layers of the group's sound built up over time, to hit the rockist core of the Manchester group's sonic personality.


Inspired by demo cassettes taped by front man Sel Balamir dating back to the late 90's, Echo Street drew influence from the old and new, the previously-trodden and the intuitively progressive; because alongside those lost recorded relics, came a new Amplifier line-up – with former Oceansize guitarist Steve Durose and bassist Alex "Magnum" Redhead joining Balamir and drummer Matt Brobin in 2011 and 2012.


This is an old school album, Maximum rock. 4 years of writing. 4 months of rehearsing. 4 days of recording, No overdubs, Just live, Just rock.