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Renfro - Mathmatics

Based in East London & North Devon, UK, Renfro are Tim Branney and Atom-James Draper. Tim sings the songs and Atom sources found-sounds. Together they write words and make music from recorded fragments.

Renfro formed in late 2005, born from a mutual love of electronic music and West-Coast vocal harmonies. Tim & Atom like the avant-garde but often find themselves wanting to sing along too. They enjoy Low and Midlake as much as they do Tod Dockstader and William Basinski, so their aim is to meld experimental electronic musical techniques with dream-pop songwriting.

Early on, whilst waving microphones at elephant seals in Santa Cruz, Ca., they also wondered why pop songs couldn't be made using a soundtrack of field recordings and electro-acoustic manipulations. Those same elephant seals ended up joining a sonic cast on the album that includes malfunctioning leads, NASA rocket launches (such as at the start of Boken Little Pieces), feeds from deep space, tapped teeth, burning plastic (a credit card sacrifice), bubble wrap popping (Planting Flags) as well as a host of wild animals and numerous controlled bursts of static/ distortion.
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