Computer LOVE

“A lot of the songs were born from weird, algorithmic, generative music experiments, but actually, everything on the record itself now was built by hand, manually.”

65daysofstatic have never been a conventional rock band. Though for most of their career their nominal line-up has consisted of Joe Shrewsbury and Paul Wolinski on guitar, Simon Wright on bass and Rob Jones on drums, this doesn’t tell you anything about the army of keyboards, synths, beats and laptops getting torn up behind the scenes. They’re most often described as a ‘post-rock’ band, though guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Paul Wolinski laughs off this description. “It’s used so often as a shorthand to describe bands with delay pedals that want to sound like Mogwai.”

That comparison is apt in at least one way however – like Mogwai, 65, the band re-scored their single using Gibber, an online live coding tool. Live coding is where music is created with code, often with players writing it in real-time, in front of an audience, as they evaluate and play it. With their increasingly sophisticated electronic experiments, it’s perhaps inevitable that 65 would end up investigating this avenue for creative inspiration. By going to a link online, fans could see the code, play the reimagined track and, with a little bit of trial and error, manipulate the song for themselves. 65 have also worked on art installations, such as and , the latter involving hacking EBows, a guitar sustainer, to accept midi input.