Stealing Sheep

Stealing Sheep

Rebecca Hawley performing with Stealing Sheep in Manchester on 20 December 2012
Background information
Origin Liverpool
Genres Electropop
Years active 2010–present
Labels Heavenly Recordings
Website Stealing Sheep
Members Rebecca Hawley
Emily Lansley
Lucy Mercer

Stealing Sheep are an electropop band from Liverpool, England, who formed in 2010. The three members are Rebecca Hawley (vocals and synthesisers), Emily Lansley (vocals, keyboards, electric guitar and bass guitar) and Lucy Mercer (vocals, drum machines, percussion and acoustic drum kit).[1]

The band released The Mountain Dogs and I Am the Rain both in 2011. Those were collected on Noah and the Paper Moon in 2012. The debut studio album Into the Diamond Sun was released in 2012 by Heavenly Recordings.[2] The album received "generally favourable" reviews.[3]

The band's second album, Not Real, was released on 13 April 2015[4] to "generally favourable" reviews.[5]

The band's influences include The Knife, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Moondog, Gary Numan, Daft Punk and Can.[6]

Discography

Albums

Singles and EPs

References

  1. ↑ Paul Lester. "New band of the day – No 1,308: Stealing Sheep | Music". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  2. ↑ "NME Reviews - Stealing Sheep - 'Into The Diamond Sun'". Nme.Com. 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  3. ↑ Metacritic, http://www.metacritic.com/music/into-the-diamond-sun/stealing-sheep
  4. ↑ Heavenly Recordings, http://heavenlyrecordings.com/records/2015/02/hvnlp112-stealing-sheep-not-real/
  5. ↑ Metacritic, http://www.metacritic.com/music/not-real/stealing-sheep
  6. ↑ "Gimme Your Answers: An Interview w/ Stealing Sheep | A Music Blog, Yea?". Amusicblogyea.com. 2013-04-05. Retrieved 2015-03-02.

[1] [2] [3]

  1. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17439-stealing-sheep-not-real/
  2. ↑ http://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/stealing-sheep-not-real
  3. ↑ http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/stealing-sheep-not-real
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