AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR

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‘The Endless Shimmering’, the fifth album by Belfast, Northern Ireland quartet And So I Watch You From Afar, is the sound of a band operating on its purest instincts. Every individual is an algorithm of prior lives and experience acting as its own sovereign entity. ‘The Endless Shimmering’ is visceral and expressive — decidedly alive and purely instinctual; not conceptualized or postured. It’s ASIWYFA — guitarists Rory Friers and Niall Kennedy, bassist Johnathan Adger and drummer Chris Wee — manifest as a being beyond itself. Laced with a renewed level of optimism, ASIWYFA offer an anthemic rush that makes way for transcendental experiences and for individuals to soundtrack the band’s sounds to whatever they need in their life at this moment… We talk to Rory Friers about being led by instinct, endurance challenges and supper clubs…

We are excited to announce that our very own Rory Friers will be the closing keynote speakers at this year’s Output festival in Belfast.

1. And So I Watch You From Afar – The Endless Shimmering

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3. And So I Watch You From Afar – The Endless Shimmering

This album is devoid of lyrics, and at first glance, the only semblance of meaning comes from the album title and the cryptic song…

A few months ago ASIWYFA teamed up with Lacada, a co-operative, community owned brewery on the North Coast of Ireland, who brew some of the best Irish beer. Lacada have a similar core philosophy of DIY self-sufficieny and had…

And So I Watch You From Afar have partnered with Start Together Studio Belfast and The Live Room Belfast for a series of live videos. ASIWYFA will be performing in their hometown of Belfast at the new Telegraph Building…

Off the back of their recent European tour (with Ireland dates to come this month) and The Endless Shimmering being named our Top Album of 2017, we caught up with And So I Watch You From…

Congratulations to And So I Watch You From Afar for winning the #1 spot on Alt Dialogue’s Top 100 Albums of the year with ‘The Endless Shimmering.’

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Belfast’s best musical export rides on. The exuberant, ridiculous, brilliant And So I Watch You From Afar just released their fifth album The Endless Shimmering to acclaim here on Spectrum Culture and continued their streak as one of math-rock’s most euphoric bands. Guitarists Niall Kennedy and Rory Friers, drummer Chris Wee and bassist Johnny Adger passed a decade as a band in 2015 and haven’t slowed down an inch. The new album flexes some hitherto unseen muscle, but still keeps things as bright and cheery as their old work, creating one of the year’s finest metal experiences.

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Rory Friers & Niall Kennedy of And So I Watch You From Afar have been nominated for Best Prog Guitarist 2017 on MusicRadar.

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The irony of having a civilised, if not genteel, discussion with two members of a band that has set the standard for raising the roof of any venue it plays in is not lost on Rory Friers and Chris Wee. These men are the guitarist and drummer with Belfast’s And So I Watch You from Afar, or Asiwyfa, a group that has over the past decade redefined the performative processes of (for want of a better term) post-rock.

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