Lawn

"..organic, full of contrasts and searching.. Lawn creates adventures on electric guitars.."

With this quote the biggest music magazine in Holland tried to nail down the sound of Lawn's second album 'Backspace'. Categorized as alternative-postrock, Lawn established themselves with this record as being one of the leading indiebands in the Netherlands; thriving on atmosphere but with a strong focus on melodies and dynamics. 'Backspace' has proven... Meer »

"..organic, full of contrasts and searching.. Lawn creates adventures on electric guitars.."

With this quote the biggest music magazine in Holland tried to nail down the sound of Lawn's second album 'Backspace'. Categorized as alternative-postrock, Lawn established themselves with this record as being one of the leading indiebands in the Netherlands; thriving on atmosphere but with a strong focus on melodies and dynamics. 'Backspace' has proven that an album can be very diverse, changing from density to transparency, from image provoking sounds to catchy songs. The song Fix combined it all in just 4 minutes and -with its single-release- it became the underground-hit Lawn was hoping for. The band backed up single- and albumrelease with extensive touring through Holland, Germany and Belgium, making many new friends along the way.

2007/2008
With new songs up their sleeve, the band also started thinking about a more solid production. The goal was not to give in on the atmosphere lawn-music seems to create, but to put more emphasis on the songstructures and melodies, letting the best parts stand out. With some advise from Robin Proper-Sheppard (Sophia, God Machine) on the pre-production side, Lawn hit the studio with well-known producers Phil Vinall (dEUS, Placebo, Snow Patrol, Radiohead) and Pieter Kloos (Motorpsycho, 35007) to achieve their new targets. Both carefully selected on their work so far, this duo matched the ideas of the band perfectly to bring the new songs to the next level. Set for a release in the spring of 2008 in GERMANY and HOLLAND, Lawn's third album will be the perfect follow-up to Backspace, with more (heavy) indierocksongs, slow atmospheric parts and new musical directions. Lawn is looking forward to hit the road again, because some adventures just shouldn't stop. From the very first of March LAWN is available for touring in Holland and Germany to promote the new record!!

Facts
Lawn is a four-piece band (Job, Titus, Okkie & Maarten), occasionally accompanied by a fifth member. Coming from a heavier stoner-rock sound, the band slowly developed into more indie/postrock directions, always making sure to never loose sight of "the song". After a few demo's their first album Lawn-dro-mat became the first step to a bigger audience, receiving good reviews in the Netherlands and Germany. With their second album Backspace the band met the high expectations of press and audience alike. With labels and booking-agents in Germany and the Netherlands Lawn started their 2 year long campaign of playing and promoting their music. Lawn supported and toured with: Slut, Sophia, Anathema, Belasco, The Gathering, Dinosaur Jr, Explosions in the Sky, Fireside and many more. The band also succesfully played on showcase festivals Popkomm, Noorderslag and Eurosonic. The single Fix (with Anneke van Giersbergen from The Gathering) got picked up by many radio-stations and the video (with Dutch award-winning actor Frank Lammers) got aired on MTV, The Box, a.o.

check out: myspace.com/lawnmusic or www.lawn.nl

Discography
2001 "Lawn-dro-mat" Grond Records
2003 "Onetakerecords & Noisepollution Splitsampler Onetakerecords / Alive
2003 "Backspace" My First Sonny Weismuller Records / Konkurrent
2004 "Backspace (german release)" Supermodern / INDIGO 2004 "FIX" (german single-release)" Supermodern / INDIGO « Minder