THEY say the devil is in the detail. Maybe, but god-like genius hangs out there, too. In a world that now seems to take notice only of melodramatic soundbites and grandiloquent gestures made against lurid, 2-D backdrops, I Am Kloot are a Harold Pinter real deal to everyone else's overblown, Cecil B de Mille mock-ups.

The rough ..n.. tumble of realism is what makes Johnny Bramwell (singer/songwriter and guitarist), bass player Peter Jobson and drummer Andy Hargreaves tick. It's the source of I Am Kloot..s misanthropic and surreal wit. When cut with their own brand of beat-up romanticism, it's also what caused a girl to faint clean away during the band's first gig outside Britain [in Paris on Valentine's Day, 2001] when she heard them play ..Twist...I Am Kloot is a little universe we created, I Am Kloot is not a band, it's a world. It's an enigmatic one because it is both brutal and charming. It is ruthless and endearing, it is full of contradictions and .. it shifts across the sky like the weather... (read less)

THEY say the devil is in the detail. Maybe, but god-like genius hangs out there, too. In a world that now seems to take notice only of melodramatic soundbites and grandiloquent gestures made against lurid, 2-D backdrops, I Am Kloot are a Harold Pinter real deal to everyone else's overblown, Cecil B de Mille mock-ups.

The rough ..n.. tumble of realism is what makes Johnny Bramwell (singer/songwriter and guitarist), bass player Peter Jobson and drummer Andy Hargreaves tick. It's the source of I... (read more)