Crescent are an alternative music band

Band (music)

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 from Bristol

Bristol

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, England

England

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, formed in the early 1990s by Matt Jones (guitar, vocals and other instruments), Chris Locke (bass on early albums) and Jasper Larsen (drums and percussion). Currently, the two principal members are brothers

Sibling

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 Matt Jones and Sam Jones (guitar and other instruments). Sam Jones also plays and records as 'The Balky Mule'.

Both the Jones brothers are also members of Movietone

Movietone (band)

Movietone is an English post-rock band. They formed in Bristol, England in 1994. Core members are Kate Wright and Rachel Brook . Brook was also a member of Flying Saucer Attack during the first few years of the band's existence, and Wright is also currently the bass player for Crescent...

. Kate Wright (singer and guitarist in Movietone) is also the bass player in Crescent. Movietone's Rachel Coe plays clarinet

Clarinet

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 on the most recent Crescent album

Album

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, and Sam Jones occasionally played live with Flying Saucer Attack

Flying Saucer Attack

Flying Saucer Attack was an experimental space rock band that formed in Bristol, England in 1992. David Pearce was the core member of the group, and Rachel Brook was a member for most of the band's lifetime....

, a band which also had Rachel Coe (then Brook) as a permanent member.

Crescent's music is generally slow, minimalistic and melancholy, unsurprisingly in a similar vein to Movietone but with an occasionally harsh, discordant edge, particularly in the earlier records. Recordings are deliberately low fidelity

Lo-fi music

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, often incorporating ambient sounds and samples of speech. The second album Electronic Sound Constructions was recorded by Matt Jones alone, and is entirely instrumental

Instrumental

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Albums

• Now (Planet / Atavistic, 1996)
• Electronic Sound Constructions (Snapshot, 1997)
• Collected Songs (Swarffinger, 1999)
• By the Roads and the Fields (Fat Cat, 2003)
• Little Waves (Fat Cat, 2007)

Singles

• "Lost" (Planet, 1994)
• "Sun" (Planet, 1994)
• "Sun" / "*" / "Unit System" EP (Atavistic, 1996)