On April 6th Operahouse release their debut album 'Escape from the Sun'. Released by Marrakesh Records, 'Escape from the Sun' is a heroic, barnstorming entrance worthy of the Pyramid Stage on a Saturday night. Produced by Richard McNamara from those similarly minded peddlers of BIG anthems, Embrace, and mixed by magic-fingers himself, Dave Bascombe - a veteran of albums by Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel and Tears For Fears - the record was made with all the urgency, passion and craft of a band who know, says singer Johnny Lloyd, that "you just don't get a second chance at this thing. OPERAHOUSE Given the opportunity to describe their own sound before that particular right is taken away from them by a swarm of hyperbole employing critics, Operahouse guitarist Alexander Kaines - who shares these duties with his fellow songwriter and lead singer, Johnny Lloyd - chooses to describe it thus: "A big, epic, sci-fi thing." Big and epic is about right. ...show more

On April 6th Operahouse release their debut album 'Escape from the Sun'. Released by Marrakesh Records, 'Escape from the Sun' is a heroic, barnstorming entrance worthy of the Pyramid Stage on a Saturday night. Produced by Richard McNamara from those similarly minded peddlers of BIG anthems, Embrace, and mixed by magic-fingers himself, Dave Bascombe - a veteran of albums by Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel and Tears For Fears - the record was made with all the urgency, passion and craft of a band who know, says singer Johnny Lloyd, that "you just don't get a second chance at this thing. OPERAHOUSE Given the opportunity to describe their own sound before that particular right is taken away from them by a swarm of hyperbole employing critics, Operahouse guitarist Alexander Kaines - who shares these duties with his fellow songwriter and lead singer, Johnny Lloyd - chooses to describe it thus: "A big, epic, sci-fi thing." Big and epic is about right.

Released by Marrakesh Records (a label set up by the people responsible for unearthing The Killers), the band's debut album 'Escape from the Sun', due out on April 6, is a heroic, barnstorming entrance worthy of the Pyramid Stage on a Saturday night. Produced by Richard McNamara from those similarly minded peddlers of BIG anthems, Embrace, and mixed by magic-fingers himself, Dave Bascombe - a veteran of albums by Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel and Tears For Fears - the record was made with all the urgency, passion and craft of a band who know, says Johnny, that "you just don't get a second chance at this thing." Operahouse have built a sound that towers over their young Britrock peers just like Babel would've done over Eiffel - and if that sounds preposterous it's just what Johnny and the band want. "It's got to be fucking out there," he says. Their educational building blocks were Radiohead (listen to the 'No Surprises' squiggles on 'Machine Palace'), The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Blur (the lairy 'Down in Electric') and Velvet Underground.

These foundations are strengthened by a rare kind of ambition and total, indefatigable belief in what they're doing. It means that when the band are asked who they wouldn't mind being compared to Johnny immediately fires out names such as Thom Yorke, John Lennon and David Bowie ("Just his greatest hits, mind") without even a hint of sarcasm. "If you don't have dreams and ambition," he says, "what's the point of doing this? We could go and start another band tomorrow and not put the effort in, but only if we were happy gigging at The 333 every night. We're realistic about where we are. ...show less