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Anastasia
 
Style(s): Indie, Modern Rock, Pop
Location: 0044 0 1452 728176
Manager: Ann Gribble
Booking: 0044 0 1452 728176
Influence(s): REM, The Levellers, etc
The music has developed continuously over the years, continues to do so, and is, for want of a more applicable term, loosely described as guitar-based indie rock. It's influences are as diverse and as individual as the backgrounds of its musicians, each of whom holds the responsibility for the crafting of their area of the song into a part of the cohesive whole.
The lyrical style drifts from the evocative to the narrative, but is based firmly in the imagery intrinsic to the mindset of a musician who views the crafting of words as his vocation. It is firmly supported by the rich detail, yet inherent simplicity of the music provided by the drums, bass, and guitars of the band, with the occasional, but essential, assistance of a mandolin.
The entire effort is always in sympathy with the intention of the song, from a band that has evolved over the years through the writing, crafting and performance of it's own material. It is a band with its own story to tell, and the need to tell it. To communicate with it's audience, and long experience of doing so, has been fundamental to it's evolution.
Although a sound idiosyncratic to ANASTASIA, a search for context will find echoes as diverse as the likes of Bowie, REM, Radio Head and Alanis Morisette. Or Pink Floyd, Crowded House, The Verve and Sheryl Crow. Or Dillan, The Levellers and Counting Crows.
Kind of depends on who you ask. And when.
And the context shifts and changes with each new song, as other influences emerge or fade in the search for inspiration.
And context is as context does, and so the sound is, perhaps, best left to be described as ANASTASIA.
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