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Major group. Sunderland Folk Pop.

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The immediate, digital release of the first E.P. from Cavillers. Recorded sporadically over a period of 6 months in a beat-up practice space in Sunderland, ‘New Puritans’ contains four timeless laments on organised religion, homelessness, colonisation and nuclear apocalypse.

http://cavillers.bandcamp.com/album/new-puritans ...

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Hello. While we are quiet (but certainly not dead) why not check out this new electric band that Lee and Jonny started.

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End States 'Errata' EP - Out Now

Its release day! Our new EP, Errata is up for stream and download today from our bandcamp page.

Here's the exciting part - the EP is available for 'pay-what-you-want' (that means free), and if you choose to download it, you get a bonus song and pdf lyric booklet/insert which features art by Alice Thatcher!

Songs about mental asylums, statues, novels and towns. So go here now and check it out: http://endstates.bandcamp.com/album/errata

You may also recall that we have been posting some teaser videos over the past few days, if you missed those you can view them at our youtube page: http//www.youtube.com/endstates.

As an extra treat, we have made a simple music video for 'Waiver Form'. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/embed/b7u8uGNC048

While we have your attention, why not like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter?

http://www.facebook.com/endstates http://twitter.com/endstates

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End States wish to communicate a second video dispatch. We also wish to communicate that 'Errata' will be released tomorrow. 

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Check out this leaked footage of the making of 'Errata', and get a sneak peak at a new song. And be sure to view it in HD! Also, artist Alice Thatcher has been kind enough to blog about the art she contributed to the project, click here.

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Warp

Tonight we finished tracking for good. My good friend Jonny, who played drums on the record, took the time out to add some final percussion on most of the tracks. It was fairly laid back and didn't take too much time or effort, though we did end up breaking the cheap tambourine I had bought.

Now we just need a final mix and master and we are ready to release 'Errata' EP. I am excited for people to finally hear it, its taken a lot of work but we are finally on the home stretch.

More updates very soon.

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Oratory

Tracking of instruments was more or less completed on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. It has really been non-stop the past couple of days and the whole process had been beginning to wear a little thin. Last night I was at the practice room until midnight trying to sing the entire thing. Vocals are always a sticking point with me, and though I am never truly happy, I think I managed to get something acceptable recorded for every track.

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Piano Man

Spent some time on Sunday afternoon returning to my roots, adding a little ditty on piano in the bridge/outro to one of the new songs. Piano is great for adding texture and fleshing out the lows/mids and works well when subtly hidden in the mix. I'm not going to over do it, and I simply don't have the skills I once had on this thing, but at least those years of music lessons are being put to some use these days.

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Genuine Article

Friday saw the second percussion session take place, and despite it being the 13th things actually went much more smoothly than the first session. I had already been down to set up most of the equipment the previous night, so we made good time right off the bat. We rented a snare from the drum shop down the road to change things up a little and this worked out very well. Despite my concerns about consistency, the second set of drums match up perfectly.

We spent some time after the live drums were completed with room mics, kick drums and floor toms which was fun, and hopefully we can sculpt this in to something quite dramatic.

With a skeleton of every song now complete, I simply need to flesh the tracks out. I've completed the instrumentation on around 3 tracks now. There are some extras to add in here and there but we are on target for an August release. I'm trying to put a lot of thought into the final arrangements. Variety and consistency is a tough balance to strike. Still much to do.

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Chord Organ Blues

Great progress has been made over the last few days. I have spent most of the days and a substantial portion of the nights recording and re-recording acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, among other things. The process has been slow and at times frustrating but I am faithful that everything will come together in time for the second percussion session on Friday.

This morning I unearthed something very special. This is a J. Busilacchio Organ that was given to my mother as a kid in the 1960s. I remember being allowed to play it as a little boy in the 1990s, and now, just 50 years after it was acquired, I will be using it in some form or another on the upcoming EP. This organ, along with a toy Beatles guitar that I was given when I was 2 or 3, may be one of the primary reasons that I ended up becoming so fascinated with music, and ended up pursuing piano lessons for so long in my youth.

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La Magie Rouge

We have decided to let you into this process, somewhat. It was a miserable July Friday and we took to the studio with big expectations. We were immediately deflated by a closed drum shop, a broken violin bow, a poor sounding snare and what we thought to be a broken condenser microphone and mixing desk channel. The latter three issues were resolved in a timely fashion.

We managed to capture two of the six tracks today, abstaining from work on the third for numerous reasons. What we did manage to get down was extremely tight and sounded great. The plan is to work on these for the remainder of the week and to reunite next Friday to get the rest down. More from the red room soon.

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Latinate

Tracking for the new EP which we are calling 'Errata' will commence this Friday and last for a couple of weeks. Six full demos have been completed since March and it has been quite a journey in terms of composing something more instrumentally and lyrically diverse.

Updates from the recording process and teasers to follow.

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Dead Cartoons:

Final demos are almost complete. Two sets of lyrics to finish off and we are set to record in early July. Six songs in total. This should all be released at some point in August. 14 months since the last thing we released but well worth it, we hope. So far this is quite different to anything we have done before, but it is something that we are altogether happier with. 

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Reached the vocal demo stage. Finishing lyrics and finalising chords and beats. Aiming to start tracking at the end of next month. Much progress this month.

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Fractious

So it's been a while since we released our self-described 'double B-Side' 'single' last year. It was good to test the waters a little and we were really pleased with the feedback that we received.

Work on new material has been slow and fractious, hampered by work and other commitments, but with 5 or 6 new ideas generated it is time to work solidly on something a little more ambitious. We want to have new music available in late summer.

So far we have spent a few days working on arrangements, the final touches should be in place over the next couple of weeks and we intend to begin the recording process shortly after.

Transmission terminated.

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It begins...

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S/T Review #2

Manifesto Magazine reviewed my track ‘Privileges’, which was very nice of them.

“Formed as an outlet for material decreed unsuitable for rock outfits such as Yeller and Broken Few, End States presents this neat little acoustic piece. Perhaps unsurprisingly it still bears the marks of the American post-hardcore that informed its would-be parent bands. An arid, stripped back track, Privileges sits in the vein of City and Colour; stirring but gritty, utilising nothing but heartbreak chord changes and the occasional tight harmony to make its point. And make it it does, in a bitter-sweet, earnest fashion, and despite its early days as a cast-off, sits very  nicely on its own.”

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S/T Review #1

I was very favourably reviewed by DingusOnMusic yesterday:

“The self-titled release from End States has been deemed, by its own author, unsuitable for his other projects.  If that’s the case then his other projects must have some pretty great material to work with because this subtly loud debut release emits pure emotional struggle from start to finish.  Part pop, part punk and part straight up emo, End States poetically delivers.”

A guy I met on tour in Erfurt in January also asked to play my songs on his radio show last night, which is awesome. Since the response has been so positive, I will look into writing more material and recording as and when I have time.

You can download the first couple songs for free at http://endstates.bandcamp.com/