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22/12/2023

Shhhh....

Attrition · Single · 2017 · 1 songs.

14/12/2023

2023 was a good year... getting back to pre-covid shows and travels ... next year will be even better!

12/12/2023

From the review of our show in Northampton last saturday...

"Nothing ages as fast as an architect’s folly, and when Coventry was irrevocably scarred with brutalist monstrosities in the 1960’s, it didn’t take long for the rot to set in. A sea of concrete quickly crumbled, cavernous car parks became a criminal underworld, while unlit alleyways, where the sun never reached, stank permanently of p**s (and if you want to know why The Specials wrote ‘Concrete Jungle’, there’s your answer). Thankfully, such environments can be fertile ground for great music and case in point are Attrition. They’ve been painting the world black with their dark sound since 1980, and their live shows are more black magic ritual than regular gig. Martin Bowes hangs off the microphone as if in a trance, while co-vocalist Julia Niblock, a singer at a séance, seems to channel a departed spirit to deliver a ghostly wail, and when floating atop discombobulating electronica, certainly casts a spell on the venue. After leading from the front with his previous bands, Alex Novak became part of Attrition in 1985 (appearing on their Smiling, At The Hypogonder Club album) and he joins the band for their final two tracks, acknowledging that era with ‘Adam and Eva’ and ‘Shrink-Wrap’."

An evening celebrating the four-and-a-half-decade, shapeshifting career of Alex Novak gets underway with the man himself exploring his early work alongside guitarist Alaric Neville. Living life at 45 r.p.m. (that’s revolutions per minute), Alex’s first forays into music came via punk (and then t...

11/12/2023

Fast work... a review of our show on Saturday at the The Black Prince in Northampton is up!

An evening celebrating the four-and-a-half-decade, shapeshifting career of Alex Novak gets underway with the man himself exploring his early work alongside guitarist Alaric Neville. Living life at 45 r.p.m. (that’s revolutions per minute), Alex’s first forays into music came via punk (and then t...

02/12/2023

a strange find indeed on youtube.... (featuring our 1983 track "The Visitor")

très cinematicaudio https://bit.ly/3xyMVEDmovie https://bit.ly/3SjhN3X

01/12/2023

In a seasonal tradition, we are giving away a free download of our Silent Night for the month of December

1 track album

16/11/2023

Review of the recent ATTRITION London show...

By Post-Punk10/11/2023Live Performing a rare London show alongside South-American post-punk band, Pilgrims of Yearning, and at the same venue they played back in 2016, founding group members Martin Bowes and Julea Waller did a short set of tracks ahead of new material they have coming out early next...

11/11/2023

ATTRITION - The Mouthless Dead

Taken from the ATTRITION album "Millions of the Mouthless Dead" by Martin Bowes and Anni Hogan.A poem by Charles Hamilton Sorley. 1915.Album released on Augu...

31/10/2023

"Mary Ann Cotton, She's dead and she's rotten
She lies in her bed, With her eyes wide open
Sing, sing, oh, what can I sing,
Mary Ann Cotton is tied up with string..."

Legend has it that When the walls are thin between the world of the living and the dead on Halloween, reciting this rhyme over her grave was enough to call the spirits of those she'd killed to audible experience.....

The Story of Mary Ann Cotton

6 track album

12/10/2023

40 years ago today...On October 12th 1983 ATTRITION played their debut London show... alongside Peter North, the Paramedic Squad and notably... Coil.
The whole set was recorded. rather badly, on a mono cassette player. Here is a sample of that show...
Live at the Recession Club, Hackney. London, October 12th 1983
https://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/track/prayer-for-the-head-live-at-the-recession-club-hackney-oct-1983

06/10/2023

As its Bandcamp friday we're offering a 20% off discount code on everything in the ATTRITION bandcamp store from now until Saturday, October 7th...
Use code "october23" at checkout!

official page for legendary UK dark industrial electronic act ATTRITION "Forever there will be the speculation that the exploration of darkness as a beautiful place will lessen our fear of it all, ease the pain a little..." " Creating and exploring rich shadowy electronic soundscapes...interweaving....

02/10/2023

and its my favourite time of year.... so i'm making the ATTRITION "Halloween" 3 x CD set available as a free/name your price download... and discounted CD set... up until October 31st of course...

17 track album

01/09/2023

And it's another Bandcamp Friday!!

official page for legendary UK dark industrial electronic act ATTRITION "Forever there will be the speculation that the exploration of darkness as a beautiful place will lessen our fear of it all, ease the pain a little..." " Creating and exploring rich shadowy electronic soundscapes...interweaving....

04/08/2023

The ATTRITION summer sale!
For Bandcamp Friday, Aug 4th 2023
30% off anything in our bandcamp store!
Vinyl, CDs, Shirts, Downloads, totes, pins...
use code "AUG23" at checkout
attritionuk.bandcamp.com

24/07/2023

Attrition are a post-punk Industrial group who define themselves as pioneers of darker electronica. Formed in 1980 by Martin Bowes and Julia Waller in Coventry, they have released a succession of c…

19/06/2023

In the news....

“Inside a cage of sound, writhes a human soul. Cold waves of electronics are juxtaposed against voices that seep through cracks in the walls of machinery and wires. Lyrics dart out in bullets from soundscapes peppered in sharp vocals and sound bites. A viola plays in the distance, giving life to t...

02/06/2023

WGT 2023 ATTRITION at the Schauspielhaus, Leipzig. May 26th 2023

Photo by Anja Radiomo

31/05/2023

"ATTRITION has the ability to make you feel connected to yourself on a deeper level and allows you to forget about the world around you. The set itself was just magical."
From the just published review of our set at Infest Festival 2022

I am writing this review almost a year after the event itself, yet I can still so very vividly remember parking up and walking over to the venue. The Bradford University campus was filled with darkly clad festival goers buzzing for the weekend to start and it filled me with excitement and had me fee...

29/05/2023

Something from the weekend
https://www.instagram.com/p/CsvhTRDoI5g/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng

25/05/2023

in case you were wondering...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClR78ad3IIbjDAPnrByZmsg

24/05/2023

ATTRITION
upcoming shows
26.05.23 - Germany - Leipzig - Schauspeilhaus/WGT
24.06.23 - UK - Wi******er - Railway Inn
01.07.23 - UK - Coventry - The Tin
12.07.23 - UK - Manchester - Gullivers
13.07.23 - Uk - Huddersfield - Parish
01.09.23 - Belgium - Charleroi - Salle les frères réunis
02.09.23 - Germany - Deutzen - NCN Music Festival
15.09.23 -UK - Bristol - Zed Alley
25.11.23 - Italy - Bergamo - Midnight club

"I always get the feeling that Attrition are a band
peeling back the veneer that covers the reality in which we exist
to provide a glimpse of the ghostly world beneath..."
Pulse Magazine

www.attrition.co.uk

18/05/2023

ATTRITION: upcoming shows
26.05.23 - Germany - Leipzig - Schauspeilhaus/WGT
24.06.23 - UK - Wi******er - Railway Inn
01.07.23 - UK - Coventry - The Tin
12.07.23 - UK - Manchester - Gullivers
01.09.23 - Belgium - Charleroi - Salle les frères réunis
02.09.23 - Germany - Deutzen - NCN Music Festival
15.09.23 - UK - Bristol - Zed Alley
25.11.23 - Italy - Bergamo - Midnight club
and more incoming... drop us a line if you would like to book more...

15/05/2023

Just arrived!.... very pleased.... the limited CD edition run of
https://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-the-cage-07022023
orders going out this week!

10/05/2023

In the news...

  2022 saw the reunion of original Attrition members Martin Bowes and Julia Niblock Waller, the band performing a series of festivals and shows in the U.K. throughout the year. Now, Attrition has announced a new live album chronicling the band’s rehearsals as a follow-up to the release of the Swi...

03/05/2023

https://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-the-cage-07022023

The original 80's ATTRITION line up reformed in 2022, performing at festivals and shows in the UK.
The rehearsals in february 2023 were recorded to multitrack and mixed by Martin Bowes in the Cage for this limited edition release...

Vocals and Electronics - Martin Bowes
Keyboards - Ashley Niblock
Synthesisers - Simon Stansfield
Vocals - Julia Waller
Cover photos by Antony Weir

Recorded live at The Cage Studios
February 7th 2023
Mixed and Mastered by Martin Bowes

www.attrition.co.uk
www.thecagestudios.co.uk
A Two Gods Production
35GODSCD

20/04/2023

40 years tomorrow.... and a free download for this next week
Anarchic synthesised rhythms and noise...
Embryonic live versions of songs from the year before the debut ATTRITION single and album, with 2 songs never actually released...
A recording of our live show at the General Wolfe. Coventry.
on April 21st 1983
With 4 page PDF booklet of photos....

8 track album

20/03/2023

Find ATTRITION here...

Listen to 1518 # Infectious Unease Radio 19_03_23 & 21_03_23 Industrial,Gothic,HorrorPunk,Punk,Darkwave,Indie. by IN

03/03/2023

Review from https://www.facebook.com/necrogenesis.industrial

ATTRITION released a preview song for the album. The formation, which has been active for 43 (!) years, has never represented a clearly defined category and this has not changed since then. Their influences include industrial, classical music, post punk & punk.
The rhythm section of their latest song "The Switch" is a bit like playing d'n'b on an acoustic drum, accompanied by a sad, broken piano word, a female aria leaning towards the eerie with speech-like vocals and a gently hiding base synth track.
Five reimaginings of the interesting, characterful and difficult-to-express-in-words track, which constantly drifts with the beat of the drum, were made, in which the basic song was moved in a more electronic, simpler rhythm, martial industrial or even ambient direction.
And when will the album itself come out?
Sometime later this year.

The Switch EP:

6 track album

03/03/2023

Oh... it's Bandcamp fee free friday today... 🙂

official page for legendary UK dark industrial electronic act ATTRITION "Forever there will be the speculation that the exploration of darkness as a beautiful place will lessen our fear of it all, ease the pain a little..." " Creating and exploring rich shadowy electronic soundscapes...interweaving....

28/02/2023

A video for the Yluko remix of ATTRITION - The Switch

Attrition : The Switch (Infuse Mix by Y-Luk-O)From the EP "The Switch" (Two Gods, 2023)https://attrition.co.ukhttps://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/the-swit...

25/02/2023

"The Switch EP reunites founding members Martin Bowes and Julia Waller for the first time in two decades; with Anni Hogan contributing grand piano, the title track presents the classic Attrition blend of pulsating electronics with classical orchestrations and eerie vocal layer. Furthermore, the EP features remixes of “The Switch” by Y-Luk-O, Martine, Oneirich, Satori, as well as an interpretation of “WITCH” by Jenna Leigh Raine..."
ReGen Magazine. USA

6 track album