“A welcome lease of life for British avant-rock, that plays with expectation at every turn” – CRACK “Exciting, alive, packed with musical ideas” - The Financial Times “Colossally ambitious” - The Quietus “Like shapes you’d vaguely discern in a roaring fire” - BBC 6Music’s Steve Lamacq LICE’s debut album ‘WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear’ was released in 2021 to international acclaim via their own Settled Law Records label. A Burroughsian concept album (populated with time-travellers, shape-shifters and ectoplasmic spectres), it melds minimalism, progressive rock, industrial and an ‘Intonarumori’ hand-built by the band – based on the 100 year-old noise instruments of Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo. Acclaimed by the likes of The Quietus, Financial Times, Gigwise (5/5), DIY (4/5), CRACK (4/5), UNCUT (4/5), DORK (4/5), NARC (4/5), Classic Rock (4/5), CLASH and Upset, it has gained radio support from tastemakers including BBC 6Music’s Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders, KEXP’s Cheryl Walters, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Formed in Bristol, LICE emerged with debut single ‘Human Parasite’ and Double EP ‘It All Worked Out Great Vol.1+2’ (on IDLES’ Balley Records). Gaining early supports for IDLES, The Fall, shame, Sorry and Fat White Family, the band were quickly tipped by the likes of Loud and Quiet as “the most exciting, inspiring and genuinely deranged new guitar band in the country”.