Electric Touch
Stick an Englishman in a band with two true blue Texans, a Californian, a Floridian and you’re bound to come up with something pretty damn original.
In this case, the result is Electric Touch, the type of unbridled rock band that’s been missing from the scene for sometime now— a monster of a group whose sound is big enough to fill an arena.
Really, their name says it all. “I thought it was like A Clockwork Orange….almost a paradox,” says charismatic frontman Shane Lawlor. “But everybody thought it sounded like a vibrator.” That wasn’t exactly a negative. “That probably is this band in a nutshell,” he concedes.
He’s not too far off: Electric Touch’s mind-blowing self-titled debut album (released summer 2008 from the Austin-based Justice Records), is a tour de force of brilliant melodies, rock hard riffs and stick-in-your-head lyrics. Produced by Frenchie Smith (Built to Spill, The Dandy Warhols, Meat Puppets) and mixed by Gavin Mackillop (Goo Goo Dolls, Sugarcult, The La’s), the album announced the arrival of a bold new talent.
