springclock
(spring clock wonder)

Bio:
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Just a year after the release of “Fantastic,” Spring Clock Wonder (SCW) returns with its fourth studio album “Magnetar.”

“Magnetar” continues the SCW tradition of rainy guitars poured over earth-laden drums and locked bass lines while it steps even further into the beyond and breaks deeper into the musical psyche of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Ian Baird than SCW albums before it.

This latest effort connects on more of a human level than prior SCW albums as it travels and shifts with a strong and imaginative focus through a myriad of styles and gears from start to finish. “Magnetar” is a record that digs its claws through the dirt of life amidst a world built in sonic rock-and-roll bliss.

( Ricardo Malti 2009 - location unknown )

All sounds, instruments and vocals performed by Ian Baird
Produced and Mixed by Ian Baird at Arjuna''s Soundroom Greenville IL.
Mastered by Paul Klimson for Theory One Productions (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, John Legend, The Roots, Ministry)
Enjoy Loudly....

"Fantastic" is an album influenced by many different musical wavelengths from the last 35 plus years. A culmination of the lifetime that Ian Baird has spent absorbed in a multitude of musical languages. This record propels you into the future all the while building on a solid foundation laid by the alternative legends that have come before. Pulling from influences like My Bloody Valentine, Thomas Dolby, Peter Gabriel, Sugar, Curve, The Beatles, Jesus Jones and Ned's Atomic Dustbin to name a few, Ian Baird effortlessly proves that Spring Clock Wonder is a fission driven rocket with a voice all it's own.

Spring Clock Wonder is well known for it's guitar driven sound and "Fantastic" continues this tradition. Along with sliding bass lines, tight drumming and healthy doses of science fiction in the synths, fans and critics alike have come to adore this combination of colors. A sound that has been described as "otherworldly" with songs of "static texture and celestial soul". Ian will never deny the effect that British shoegaze, noise pop bands have had on him, but SCW brings forth a warmth and a clarity made possible by Ian living in a small town in the heartland of America. Here in this isolation offered to him, Ian has been able to craft the SCW sound for the last 11 years, virtually undisturbed by musical trends or fashions that occur in the outside world. Currently our musical climate is drenched in cliches, a constant barrage of the same old thing, however "Fantastic" proves that Spring Clock Wonder is uncompromisingly kicking down the door of tomorrow. With a sound and lyric that paint the most vivid images in the mind, and an album with a clear focused eye on the future, Spring Clock Wonder has developed a timeless and captivating experience of sound.

Recorded in the now legendary Arjuna's Soundroom located in Greenville IL., all of the instruments and vocals were performed by Ian Baird. Wearing many hats Ian also produced and mixed the record, then mastered it alongside Ian's longtime friend and audio engineering expert Joel Gragg. Though many say that a record made in this fashion runs the risk of becoming too one dimensional, "Fantastic" is anything but. With songs that seem to pierce the veil between the seen and unseen, Ian Baird has created the most expansive sounding Spring Clock Wonder record to date.
The future is now. (Ricardo Malti 2008)

www.springclockwonder.com
www.ianbaird.net

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Beautiful post-shoegazer songs with edgy, static textured guitar distortion, walls of white noise and over-compressed vocals. soaring compositions of celestial soul” - Eric Shea (Listen.com)


(one of the) ten best bands in St. Louis... - 105.7 The Point (KPNT) - Pointfest 15 Competition



This is one of the best releases in 2003 - Laura Hamlett (Playback Magazine)



Beautiful post-shoegazer songs with edgy, static textured guitar distortion, walls of white noise and over-compressed vocals... soaring compositions of celestial soul - Eric Shea (Listen.com)



This is absolutely the best debut offering that Ive heard in a good long while! Darren Tracy (Flush Magazine)



(Spring Clock Wonder) played with fervor and power throughout the one hour set. They moved effortlessly from one song to the next with a cohesion not present in many newly constructed bands. - Portia Kapraun (The Papyrus)