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We caught up with Dancers earlier this week. The band from the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales have recently released their debut album, 'What You Want I Can’t Get It All But What I Do I Do It All For You', and were up for a quick chat about it. 

1 Who are Dancers?

Dancers is a five-to-six piece noisy pop band with our roots in the Vale of Clwyd, North Wales. We've been playing together for a while but life just keeps getting in the way. We're back from a two year hiatus and we've finally managed to keep everyone in the same country for long enough to get our debut EP finished.

2 You released your debut album 'What You Want I Can’t Get It All But What I Do I Do It All For You' on the 19th, tell us a little about this?

It's a record that's been a long time coming. We began recording it in 2012 in various spots around the UK with the aid of Alun, our elusive producer. I (Daf) moved to Canada shortly afterwards and the idea was to finish mixing it via email. It turns out that this is quite a difficult thing to do, and, coupled with the fact that a lot of the original takes weren't up to scratch, we decided to shelve it until I was back in the country. So, it exists in a bit of a time-warp really, it's an image of a band from two years ago.

3 Who are your biggest inspirations?

I learned the guitar around the Smashing Pumpkins and that shapes the way I approach the instrument and probably the way I sometimes sing. That kind-of fuzzy aesthetic leaks through our music. I was listening to a lot of post-rock when I was at my most impressionable so bands like Mono and Explosions In The Sky had a huge impression on me at the time; I still can't resist a massive dynamic change in a song, it gets me every time.

4 Where do you see yourselves in 5 years time?

I think we'll still be making music, all of us, in one way or another. I don't think our music is too conducive to achieving success but that's almost never been the point for a lot of bands. In all honesty, we'll all probably be working in offices, smashing our heads into screens and sighing louder each year the Glastonbury lineup is announced. But y'never know, y'know?

5 What's next for Dancers?

First of all we'll be celebrating the launch of our record at Four Bars at Dempsey's in Cardiff on Saturday, July 26th (that's this Saturday). There's a double A-side in the works that should be out later this year. Lots of writing and recording, gigs, momentum, beer mats, rehearsed dance routines and maybe we'll even get the chance to sit down and take a nice promo photo of ourselves.

Big thanks to Dancers for the interview. 

Watch the video to 'Feeling Ill Again', taken from Dancers debut album via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/100873955

Download Dancers debut album via their official webpage: http://dancersband.wordpress.com/

Listen to Dancers debut album via Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dancers

Also download their debut album via their official Bandcamp page: http://dancers.bandcamp.com/releases

Follow Dancers on Twitter: @dancersband / https://twitter.com/dancersband

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Like Dancers on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dancersband

Written by Charlie Ireland. 

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