Tangled Talk Records

The James Cleaver Quintet

The James Cleaver Quintet
Every now and then, a band comes around that treads on everything you thought you knew about music. The James Cleaver Quintet have done just that with their debut album That Was Then, This Is Now. Having built a reputation around the country for tearing through uncompromising live performances, the band have managed to harness that uncontrollable energy and channel it into 13 tracks of pure mayhem where anything can and will happen.

That Was Then, This Is Now reflects on a time when the band were at a point in their lives where it was a possibility that the record wouldn’t even get written. Fortunately, unity and determination saw them through dark times and attention was focused on turning those hardships into a positive and creative force. That unmistakeable grit and honesty is at the core of the album, separating it from the punk and hardcore scenes’ increasing mediocrity.