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Debut album tells true-life tale of different path to love

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Industrial noise-pop three-piece Tayne is the project of Dublin-born, London-based, and one-time Galway man Matthew Sutton. A noisy and experimental outfit, the band’s sound incorporates elements of hard rock and pop music. It is machine-heavy – the songs clang and hum, usually in two-minute bursts, playing with dark melodies and abrasive, eclectic guitar sounds.

Tayne’s debut album LOVE is set for release on the final day of the month. For all its intensity, the tracklist is populated by revelatory, vulnerable songs and ambitious storytelling.

Visuals are a big part of the record’s identity too – in celebration of the launch, Sutton will be offering 20 Tayne tattoos to fans at a parlour in King’s Cross. Some of that focus goes back to his studies in Galway.

“I was there for like six years,” he says. “I moved there in 2008 and then I moved here – I guess it would’ve been the start of 2015. I moved to Galway to study art. I went to GMIT and did fine art in Cluain Mhuire and then just hung about for a bit afterwards.

“I was in the music scene there. There was a band that I played in. We were a two-piece post-rock thing called It Was All A Bit Black & White. We always played in the Róisín Dubh, religiously.

“We used to get sweet hook-up gigs anytime And So I Watch You from Afar or bands like that were coming through. Recently we’ve been talking about seeing if we could revive that band. It’s been about ten years since we put out our first record.”

The road to Tayne’s sound is winding, with influences coming from all kinds of places. The percussion for the band’s latest single, Scars, was inspired by the Terminator movies, and Sutton refers to his work as a version of pop music.

“I was always a guitar player and Tayne, the incubator start of it, was trying to make music that wasn’t guitar-led,” he says.

“I was always trying to make my guitar not sound like a guitar – adding as many effects to it as possible. It became obvious to me that maybe I’m a bit more interested in stuff that isn’t guitar focused. And Tayne came from that.

Pictured: Tayne…debut album out this month. Photo: Einvind Hansen.

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