nineblackalps. They are named after a line in a Sylvia Plath verse and are fronted by Sam Forrest. The band's first album Everything Is was released June 2005 to strong reviews and their enigmatic plus somewhat anarchic exist performances contain earned them a hardcore fanbase after playing for only 6 months on the Manchester melody scene.

Freezing Monkeys supported the band for one night at Manchester Academy 2005. Their first U. S.

They played to a large spectators in March, 2006, at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX. com reported so as to they were working on the follow up to Everything Is, recording with Oasis and Jet producer Dave Sardy in Los Angeles. com the band and Dave Sardy will "furrow their brows, give vent to their spleens plus bleed their hearts into the production of a glorious technicolour audiophonic dreamscape.