Normal Ltd.

Normal Ltd. is a band, except when it isn’t. On record, it appears as the singular vision of Dicky; live, it multiplies into a six-piece made up largely of childhood friends, drafted in to translate and add to years of secret experiments into something loud, human and just about under control. Whether it’s one mind or many depends entirely on when you encounter it. The project has been mutating behind closed doors for five years, inside Migration Studios - a converted grain barn sequestered in the English countryside built by Dicky himself. The studio has become a kind of instrument labyrinth: rare and ageing synthesisers sit alongside orchestral instruments, battered 1960s fibreglass guitars, drums, tape machines and analogue experiments. Sounds are played, broken and rebuilt; songs are not written so much as uncovered, creating experimental works with almost stubborn devotion to songs, melody and emotional impact. Normal Ltd. is the sound of someone disappearing into the countryside long enough to build a world, then opening the door just wide enough to let the sound escape.