| Biography | Grasscut are composer/producer Andrew Phillips and musician/writer Marcus ODair. Phillips writes and produces all Grasscut music; he also sings and plays various instruments including guitar and keyboards. O'Dair manages the act and contributes keyboards and double bass. They are based in Brighton, England.
Grasscut have released two albums on Ninja Tune, 1 inch: 1/2 Mile (2010). and Unearth (2012). Their third album, Everyone Was A Bird, was released by Lo Recordings in 2015.
Following the release of 1 Inch: ½ Mile, Clash magazine described Grasscut as "genuinely daring electronica artists", with the album appearing as Mojo magazines electronica album of the month, one of iDJs debut albums of the year and one of the top ten pop albums of the year according to the Sunday Telegraph. Speaking to the Quietus website, Tom Robinson of BBC 6 Music named it one of his top 13 albums of all time
According to Andy Gill of The Independent, Grasscut's second album, Unearth, should have been on the Mercury list. Both records won 5-star reviews from the Telegraph; support has also come from the Sunday Times, Word, Uncut, Time Out, Q and Clash. They have had airplay from BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 5Live and 6Music, and have played sessions on 6Music and XFM.
In May 2015 Grasscut released their third studio album titled Everyone Was A Bird. The album has been described by Clash as "an engrossing, artful work",[7] and by The Quietus as "that rare slab of post-rock that uses the genre's textures and general ethos of exploration to create new sounds instead of rehashing old ones". The liner notes were written by acclaimed landscape writer, Robert Macfarlane and were premiered on the website Caught By The River in April 2015.
In March 2016, online magazine The Quietus announced Grasscut's third studio album was to be released as a remix album. The album will include remixes from artists including Mira Calix, John Metcalfe, Leo Abrahams and Penguin Cafe, and will be released on Lo Recordings in the UK and Sounds et al in the US. |