
Taking their name from a Roy Haynes album, Out of the Afternoon came together in August 2007, and began playing concerts a few months later. Core members Anna Sales, Nicholas Millard, Steven Eagles and Alex Szrok soon developed a musical ease and creative understanding whilst quickly shaping an album's worth of material. This material was subsequently recorded with producer Pritpal Soor throughout 2008 and 2009, no short period, but with no budget and no place to record other than a damp squat in Fulham, this slow pace yielded fine results. [...]

Out Of The Afternoon From: South East London, United Kingdom Thanks to Tom Robinson ( Freshnet ) for alerting the Devil to the delights of Out Of The Afternoon. Taking their name from a Roy Haynes album, the London quartet could be the cool, less whimsical brothers of The Young Knives . They're sharper than a brain surgeon's scalpel with a clutch of clattering pop classics in the making. There [...]