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A Year In Records

2011 was the most colourful year in our label history. Andrew discusses twelve musical months that wobbled, thundered and ultimately uplifted.

LaFaro's 'Easy Meat' Is Echoes And Dust's Number 2 Album Of 2011

STA Alumni, And So I Watch You From Afar pinches it to number 1 with 'Gangs'

Terrorizer feature

"People can spot a fake a mile away."

ASIWYFA support Them Crooked Vultures!

ASIWYFA will be supporting Them Crooked Vultures on their upcoming European tour.

AU Magazine catches up with the NI bands at SXSW 2010

"A crowd of 150-plus had gathered outside, it was incredible...not even our booking agent Beckie could get in." - Chris Wee

The Irish Independent review ASIWYFA's Andrew's Lane Theatre show in Dublin

'A capacity crowd is lapping up the relentless assault of cascading riffs and white noise...'

HeinekenMusic.ie review ASIWYFA's Andrew's Lane Theatre show in Dublin

"This music makes you wish you played guitar."

Rhythm Feature

"I'd describe our sound as more like Mars Volta, a real open-minded, progressive sound." - Chris

What Austin thought of ASIWYFA's SXSW 2010 appearance

'The entire crowd erupted in micro-moshing and headbanging, transfixed by the sound.'

Austin Chronicle review of SXSW 2010

"The band cranked up the volume, kicked away the microphone stand and now aims its instro-rock right in the gut."

PunkMusic.com review of SXSW 2010

'I never knew an instrumental set could be this exciting.'

See what the locals think at SXSW 2010

'A blistering, deafening, yet almost hypnotic wall of instrumental guitar.'

Rock Sound Magazine review of The Letters EP

"Catchy guitar riffs crashing against a heavier adaptation of the same theme."

Rory talks to the locals in the run up to SXSW 2010

"There's nothing worse than having a ghetto blaster that doesn't work for three days." - Rory Friers

Tony talks to Rock Sound Magazine

"One day there was a phallic-shaped letter which neighed like a horse when I picked it up!"

Irish Daily Star feature

Worth looking at just for the press shot!

RockMidgets.com review of The Letters EP

'A lesson in how to stick a much needed rocket up post-rock's arse.'

InYourSpeakers.com - Letters - EP Review

'And So I Watch You From Afar keep nothing close to their chest or up their sleeve, everything that could be poured out is poured out in a tirade of post-rock, post-metal annihilation in an unbelievably brief sixteen minutes.'

ASIWYFA talk to the Limerick Post about 'The Letters' EP

"We are the bull, you are the china shop"

Double-page spread in this week's Irish World

'The Shadows never had any problems shifting records without auld Cliff...'

HeavierThanAir.com review of The Letters EP

"The style of ASIWYFA is as sprawling as their monicker."

AU Readers Vote ASIWYFA The Best Record Of The Decade

Belfast-based AU Magazine polled their readership for the best Irish albums of the decade and the results are out in the new issue. Thanks to everyone who voted ASIWYFA the best Irish record of the 2000s.

Kerrang! Review Fighting With Wire And And So I Watch You From Afar

'Fighting With Wire play like they're already headlining stadiums. With their grungy crunch and arsenal of big fuck off choruses it would be a travesty if that dream didn't become destiny.' - 4/5