News Class Of 2014: Bondax

2013’s been a process of discovery. Writing for an eventual full-length got off to a rocky start. “For six months we were making bullshit really,” claims Townsend. Raised in Lancaster, they’ve both been thrown into things, half-living out of studios while avoiding gluttonous riders by taking on festival after festival. Disclosure comparisons might seem a little steep, and indeed reductive when you’re considering two young, dance-centric producers. But there’s a similar chatter surrounding their name. Consider that this time last year Disclosure hadn’t unveiled ‘White Noise’, their astronomical single. There’s the slight sense that Bondax have something similar up their sleeves. Not that either of them are paying too much attention to the hype.

“At points we’ve been overly conscious with what other people are doing,” admits Townsend. “If you start thinking too much about it, it can go the other way; you end up making some weird left shit.” They cite Soundcloud, constant new discoveries as their muse (“How do you get new ideas if you’re never listening to anything else?”)

In actual fact that’s how they began collaborating with vocalists, like Joe Janiak, who sings on ‘Gold’ and who also joins Bondax in the studio on the day of the interview. At first, the album became weighed down by the fact that “we weren’t finding the right vocalists,” but they’ve since settled into a rhythm.

“We’ve got a theme the whole way through it actually,” says George. “It’s through the course of a day, and the tracks fit into different hours. It’s basically the Bondax version of ‘24’.” Expect explosions, dramatic closing scenes and enough ‘God dammit!’’s to warrant an ‘Explicit Content’ sticker. “I think the whole album has a level of accessibility. They’re songs, you know? It’s not so weird that you’re going to be freaked out by it.”

Far from being thrown off by their spiralling past 12 months and way out of the loop on just how far into outer space their eventual debut could take them, after a faulty start Bondax have struck ‘Gold’. Just don’t let them near a banjo or a free bar.

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