Indie-psych-pop quartet Imperial Daze started as a four-piece studio project, made up of singer/guitarist Alex Cameron-Ward, guitarist/bassist Felix Rebaud-Sauer, keyboardist/singer Facundo Rodriguez and drummer Tom Sunney. Following Alex’s previous band being placed in a Sony PS4 advert, Alex, Facundo and Felix decided to build a recording studio together in Battersea, with the intention of making music for advertising under the company name of AudioCommune. Having begun writing music together, late-2016/early-2017 saw Imperial Daze release a short series of hotly received singles, earning critical acclaim and clocking up tens of thousands of plays across streaming platforms. The band’s hazy, rolling indie-pop and self-made success also caught the attention of Rupert Jarvis from The Maccabees and Ian Brundrett from Caroline/Fiction Records, who took the band under their wing for both production and management. Having performed as a studio project up until meeting Jarvis, the decision was made to put a live band together with the idea of recording a first EP and touring, and the 'Solid Fair EP was recorded at The Maccabbes own studio The Drugstore. Another stroke of luck occurred when AudioCommune landed a commission to score an advert for a large ice cream brand, and the the money from that enabled them to build another studio from scratch, inside a giant disused commercial freezer under a railway arch in Central London. Having their own Electric Eel Recording studio has allowed the band to expand their sound and repertoire, scoring, recording and producing the soundtrack to director Nathan Sam Long's short movie 'Give Up The Ghost', while continuing to record music as Imperial Daze. This album collects together those early singles plus the 'Solid Fair' EP, to give an idea of what an album from the band could sound like, and it's pretty good considering it only started as something of a side project to their advertising empire.
Track listing
01 1000 Lives
02 Solid Fair
03 All On Me
04 Work
05 Don't Turn On The Light
06 Man Out Of Myself
07 Minding The Haze
09 People Are Animals
10 Centrepole
