Colton Sparks "I've been making music since god knows when. About a year and a half ago, I discovered Baths. I've liked electronic music forever, but it was a game changer. I started listening to Washed Out, Toro Y Moi, Pictureplane. For the past 6 months, I've been trying to crank out some of my own stuff that didnt turn out to be some crappy electro song or some girly little top 40 copy. This is the result. This is my baby. This is GUIDES." Influences: Memory Tapes, Friendly Fires, Cassette Club, Air France, Au Revoire Simone, Baths, Geotic, Memory Cassette, Pictureplane, Washed Out, Millionyoung, Amiina, Sigur Ros, Dosh http://soundcloud.com/guides http://www.facebook.com/GUIDESMUSIC ___________ GUIDES - LOS ANGELES “…Guides dally in textures and tones, but in their abrasive riffage and pummeling rhythms lay a sense of purpose that make you question your comfortable notion of “pretty.”….The menacing “Careful, I Was Every Sin” hurts so good when the big guitars kick in just shy of the 2-minute mark.” - Buzzbands “(GUIDES) have embarked down an esoteric path full of experimental structure, vague melodies, and a shoegaze-worthy wall of sonics” -Free Bike Valet Grounded yet other-worldly, GUIDES debut 3-song 7” gives the listener just a taste of what’s to come. Musical abstractions as sonic foundations. Wall of guitar blasts meet hazy melodies. Stripped down riffs sounding simultaneously zoned-out yet full of intention. Esoteric? Maybe, but as so many groups throughout history whose seemingly ‘difficult’ music has been embraced by the masses, this is a musical cloud worth reaching. GUIDES is: Chris Cogswell – guitar / vocals; Jayson Larson – drums; Be Hussey – bass / guitar http://g--u--i--d--e--s.com/ https://www.facebook.com/weareguides https://www.youtube.com/user/weareGUIDES/videos Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.