The Invisible
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SXSW 2010
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The Invisible are a South London trio who create ‘exploratory, expansive pop music’ that operates on two distinct levels simultaneously: it’s instant of hit, melodies exact and hooks neatly barbed, yet there are cerebral qualities.
Their eponymous debut album (released 9 March 2009), was nominated for the Mercury Prize and selected as critics choice for iTunes album of the year.
The Invisible’s name arrived after the three began writing. The moniker is a nod to the writing of Irish philosopher and poet John O’Donohue, whose simply articulated notion that humans exist in parallel worlds – the visible and the invisible; one physical, one spiritual – is a relationship, a balance, that comes through loud and clear in the band’s aesthetic.
Unafraid to challenge themselves compositionally, The Invisible’s boundless approach to arrangement flows effortlessly between the texturally rich and the rhythm heavy, the ethereal and the visceral, taking in unique and subtle electronic dancefloor rhythms as well as deviations into experimental rock. It’s a mixture that’s won peer level praise from the likes of Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Foals, Hot Chip, Wild Beasts, Anna Calvi and Everything Everything.
The Invisible are releasing their second album, ‘Rispah’ in 2012. The first release from this will be a limited edition 12” of ‘Protection’ – released 26th March, 2012.