Artist: Aqualung
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Electronic
Dance
Indie
Discography:
Memory Man
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Strange and Beautiful
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Still Life
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Aqualung
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
London-based Matt Hales, aka Aqualung, started getting tangled in music at a pres Young age patch hearing to different tracks played at his parents' Southampton phonograph recording stock. He began writing songs at age four on his family's pianoforte. At the age of 16, after achieving a scholarship, the enthusiastic thomas Young isle of Man began attending composition classes. A twelvemonth later a philharmonic called Life Cycle became his debut in the definitive area, performed by a 60-piece orchestra. His blood brother Ben united him in a band to overlay the Police's classical songs. In the early '90s, following studies at London's City University, he became part of the Britpop banding Ruth, releasing President Benjamin Harrison on ARC Records in 1999. After leading the 45's (non the Atlanta-based garage tilt revival band) and issuance deuce singles on Universal, Hales grew disenchanted and started working on Aqualung in 2002, frequently co-writing songs with his married woman Kim Oliver and blood brother Ben Hales. The alternative tilt project (ab initio scarcely a lo-fi sleeping room venture) became quickly popularized by a VW Beetle TV ad in the U.K. featuring his vocal "Strange and Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell on You)," which coincided with the release of his self-titled debut in 2002. Several singles followed into the succeeding class, as well as his second album, the fuller-sounding Still Life. The record spawned some other stumble single in "Brighter Than Sunshine," and shortly, various Aqualung tracks were popping up in popular television shows and movies on both sides of the Atlantic. Hales so combined tracks from his earlier U.K. albums into one 12-song set for Aqualung's proper American debut, which finally surfaced in early 2005 via Columbia Records entitled Brighter Than Sunshine. Extensive touring end-to-end North America followed over the succeeding deuce years, driving the album to identification number one on Billboard's Heatseekers chart and sledding on to trade over 250,000 copies. On the route, since Hales was fundamentally just now playing songs he'd written years earlier to a new audience, he would routinely electric switch up the Aqualung show with different musicians, settings, and approaches to maintain things as fresh as possible. The diverse elements he explored during this fourth dimension (including the echo device called the Memoryman) later drove chisel the creative process behind what would later turn Aqualung's next record album, March 2007's more than ambitious Memory Man.
