Sargasso

In 1998 five scottish men found themselves living in south west London. United by a taste for the darker, slightly broken end of pop; rank amateurism and continental lager, they formed Sargasso. The band's distinctive sound was defined as much by each of the band members trying to make themselves heard above the towering output of Paul Lyall's larynx and George Robertson's capacious and fiercely struck kick drum, as their determined (some would say wilful) efforts to channel their diffuse influences into a coherent sound.