This Town Needs Guns

Infobox musical artist
Name = This Town Needs Guns


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Origin = Oxford, UK
Genre = Indie
Math Rock
Years_active = 2006–present
Label = BSM Records (UK)
Sargent House (USA)
Rallye (Japan)
Yellow Ghost Records (Australia)
URL = [http://www.myspace.com/thistownneedsguns Official Website]
Current_members = Stuart Smith
Tim Collis
Jamie Cooper
Chris Collis

This Town Needs Guns are an indie-rock band originating from Oxford in the United Kingdom. They were formed in 2006, and are currently signed to the Big Scary Monsters Recording Company (UK), Sargent House (USA), Rallye (Japan), and Yellow Ghost Records (Australia).

The band have built a huge online fanbase with many people excited by their technical and clever instrumentation. In the summer of 2008 a rumour circulated that guitarist, Tim Collis, was taught to play by [http://www.joanfrc.com/victor.html Victor Villareal] (Owls, Cap'n Jazz), something which is yet to be confirmed or denied by the band.

Their debut full length album, 'Animals', is released in UK via Big Scary Monsters Recording Company in October 2008 and shortly after in the US via Sargent House Records. The band will be touring the UK, Europe and US throughout 2009.

Musical Style

Over the years the band's musical style has progressed and changed, although the focal point of their style has been the impressive guitar work of Tim Collis interspersed with solid, and at points highly complex, drumming and sparse, melodic bass. Early releases however, featured more distorted chord progressions, as well as a strong focus on the interlinking melodies of both Collis and Smith's guitars. More recently however, the band's music has become more technical; making more use of asymetrical time signatures and complex accenting between guitar and drums, plus an abandonment of distortion and guitar effects, giving way to more complex melodies. Pianist Jody Prewett also had a brief spell in the band.

Discography

* "Animals" (BSM - 2008, Sargeant House - 2008)Split with Pennines (BSM-2008)
* "This Town Needs Guns" (Yellow Ghost - 2008, Rallye - 2008)
* "Split CD with Cats and Cats and Cats" (BSM - 2007)
* "And I'll Tell You For Why..." (BSM - 2007)
* "Hippy Jam Fest" (BSM - 2006)

External links

* [http://www.thistownneedsguns.com Official Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/thistownneedsguns Myspace]
* [http://www.bsmrocks.com Big Scary Monsters Recording Company]