The Edinburgh three piece broke into the industry the way most people could only dream about, developing heavy record label interest by only cold calling labels via email!
After a number of interested labels NAC decided to go with KScope (home to Engineers, Steve Wilson and Porcupine Tree) and haven't looked back.
NAC are a hard band to pinpoint, their list of influences runs as long as the Godfather trilogy played back to back with anyone from Godspeed You Black Emperor to Blur cited yet they don't really sound much like any of them. Of course that's not necessarily a bad thing, NAC have a very upbeat 'prog' feel more at home with some of the later Flaming Lips material, opener 'Cell Count' swirls around hazes of keyboard and synth noises laying heavily over vocodered vocals with an annoyingly bouncy beat.
The other two original tracks on this ep carry on similar ground with 'Ceiling Poem' starting off with bags of potential before culminating into another annoyingly bouncy beat, 'I Only Have Eyes For You' is a much more sombre affair which bumbles along in mists of dreamy synths sounding more like early Air.
Already playing gigs with the likes of Explosions in the Sky and working with bands such as labelmates Engineers NAC are certainly in good hands and this isn't a bad debut and although it does still feel like they are finding their sound I reckon when they do we are in for a real treat.
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