Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release

2007 debut album from this duo of DJs and producers, formerly one-half of the indie band Simian. James Ford and James Shaw started playing Electronic music together before Simian formed and began DJ'ing clubs during in between Simian's touring commitments, eventually combining these two loves and creating their own project. They didn't want their songs to sound too techy and programmed, so they recorded them all on analogue machines, and kept the mistakes. They called up their old Simian mucker Simon Lord and asked him to sing the swirly, Psych-Folk vocal on 'I Believe', just to prove there were no hard feelings. They roped in Barry Dobbin from sadly-missed jerk-popsters Clor to add his unique vocal hooks to the cinematic space disco of 'Love'. They enlisted exuberant Go! Team front woman Ninja to splatter her sassy hip-house rhymes all over irresistible opener 'It's the Beat'. They decided to name the album Attack Decay Sustain Release because it sounded like a good motto to live by. 10 tracks. Wichita.