This City

The story

This City have been already been described in review as “like The Travelling Wilburys if it was made of members of Bloc Party and At The Drive In”. Maybe if you throw in the eyeball-popping nuances of Blood Brothers, the same turn-on-a-sixpence disco-jerk rhythms of the more danceable end of punk (think Les Savy Fav or !Forward Russia!), the impassioned cacophony of mid 80s Dischord Records-led emotional hardcore, the pop sensibility of tykes such as The Automatic and subtract the reference to Tom Petty and co

From Last.fm, written by its listeners.

Stories

Beyond the records: books, other lives and interviews, from the band and its members.

Watch

Tap the heart on the board while a song plays and it lands here. Listeners who keep their listening private are counted, never named.

Records

Records from MusicBrainz, completed with the release lists of Deezer. Sleeves from the Cover Art Archive and the same lists.

Also plays on

Records by other artists with This City in the credits, from the song and record credits of MusicBrainz and Discogs. Their own bands are above.

Playlists with This City in them: Sonic Architects selections and Pause & Record tapes from linr listeners, Deezer’s editors and curators, radio shows on Mixcloud and ListenBrainz playlists. Every tile opens on linr first, with the original one link away.

If you like This City

• Cut The Blue WireLast.fm listeners
• Tonight Is GoodbyeLast.fm listeners
• Data.Select.PartyLast.fm listeners
• Kill The ArcadeLast.fm listeners
• TellisonLast.fm listeners
• Drive-By ArgumentLast.fm listeners
• Elle MilanoLast.fm listeners
• Shut Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into FlamesLast.fm listeners
• The Beatlessame scene: indie rock, GB
• The Curesame scene: indie rock, GB
• Radioheadsame scene: indie rock, GB
• Musesame scene: indie rock, GB

Where the listeners of ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Deezer agree, with the circle of This City’s own bands. A source that names other people with the same name is left out.