Stereophonics

Kelly Jones - vocals, guitars & piano
Richard Jones - bass guitars
Javier Weyler - the drums
It might be their fifth album, but Stereophonics view Language. Sex. Violence. Other? with the same excitement as a debut record. It is also the band’s fourth No. 1 album in the UK, achieving platinum status just one week after its release. The album also gave the band their first number one single, Dakota, which topped both the singles chart and the download chart and was the longest running number one on itunes UK.

It’s a little under two years since You Gotta Go There To Come Back, Stereophonics third consecutive Number One album, and the band have been busy on a world tour during which they wrote and demoed most of the material for the new album. There’s a new member, Javier Weyler replaces Stuart Cable on drums, new working practises, and, a new, super-affirmative attitude.
The music press were equally enthralled, with NME commenting ‘This is an excellent, modern rock record. Dense, intelligent and challenging’, and Kerrang giving the album 4/5 saying ‘…a newfound sense of groove, a dark, sleazy edge that shows off a whole new side the ‘Phonics’. Mojo thought it a ‘….volley of fierce minimalistic but defiantly pop-sensible hard rock’ whilst Q thought ‘the energy of their earliest recordings in back. The riffs are back. The vocals have snap and bite. It starts with menace and malevolence, Stereophonics have never sounded so brooding, mysterious and sexy’. Classic Rock gave the album 8/10 saying ‘ …a magnificently direct album, packed with full-throttle rock songs’.
Esquire felt that “the Welsh trio turn out an epic and highly focused fifth album that should knock your socks off.”

-www.stereophonics.com