Filter Distortion is a four-piece electro band from Liverpool, England, and if you haven’t heard of them, you will. With their debut album Transition, the band is attracting a huge following, mainly due to their music being featured on Channel 4, LFC TV, and BBC 6 Music in the UK. Two tracks from the album, Cameras in the Dark and Neon Nights, have both been selected as BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson’s Fresh on the Net Fresh Faves. Recorded using just three microphones, the band wrote and produced all the album’s tracks before mastering with engineer and producer Daniel Woodward at Liverpool’s Whitewood Recording Studio.
Transition is definitely heavily influenced by Depeche Mode, with a pure, crisp sound, which doesn’t sound dated. It’s like Depeche Mode hooked up with Human League and had a baby full of musical badassery. Each track has really high-quality keyboards, defining bass line, and great sound layering. The tracks all feature some high-quality production, with frontman Wesley Hughes’ voice being really strong throughout all of the tracks that we listened to from the album.
We think that Filter Distortion is probably one of the best pop bands we’ve heard in a very long time. We loved every song, our favourites being Black and White, Pressure, Frequency Modulation and Cameras in the Dark. If we had a complaint, it would be in the first track of the album, Black and White. They totally could have left out the motorcycle effects at the beginning and end of the track. It didn’t add anything to the song at all.
All in all, for lovers of electronic pop, you’re not gonna do much better than Filter Distortion right now. Their music contains all the things you love about 80’s style electronic music, and we think that you should definitely keep an eye on these guys, because they’re gonna be setting stages on fire. Depeche Mode would be proud.
Transition is out now and is available at Probe Records and Dig Vinyl in the UK, and on iTunes. You can keep up with Filter Distortion on Facebook at facebook.com/filterdistortionhq, Twitter @filtadistortion, and on their website at www.filterdistortion.co.uk.
