ALEKS AND THE RAMPS present PISCES VS AQUARIUS

Pisces Vs Aquarius, the charming and disorienting debut album by Aleks and the Ramps, was recorded a pebble's toss from the violent shores of the Southern Ocean, in a state of seascape-like grandeur with a sizeable dose of cabin fever.
 
Deadpanning salubrious songs of misanthropic romance, Aleks and the Ramps zigzag lightning-fast between disparate constellation points of delicate banjo melodies, death-metal worthy speed mash-ups, pretty glockenspiels, basketball singlets, five part vocal harmonies and genital flossing.
 
Since mid 2005, the band have gained in notoriety in their hometown of Melbourne, Australia and increasingly further afield, for their debonair onstage riot of formation dance moves and hair's-breadth near-collisions.
 
Aleks' lyrics tell of an improbable world filled with the unpeachy confessions of a reptilian scoundrel, some sweet talk between car crash fetishists, the confusion of a man who wakes up to find his girlfriend unperturbed by the fact that he is dead, a hallucinogenic scene of domestic suffocation, an awkward infatuation plaguing a prison escapee, and a bad Spanish translation of a Roxette number.
 
The Ramps are Aleks' rogue minstrels: a fancy guitarist (Flying Simon), a theatrical bassist (Acidtoothraptorqueen), a dancing percussionist (Captain Rad) and a screaming keyboardist/miscellaneous instrument player (Extreme Wheeze).
 
The delicious rock (soap) opera that is Pisces Vs Aquarius features several guest Ramps -- Baron Samadhi's Matt Dixon and James Marshall (trombone and trumpet), Hugo Tremby (Potential Falcon - piano and string arrangements), cellist Emily Williams and violinist Gabe Lewis (Three Month Sunset). The result is a gorgeous cacophony of banjo, glocks, strings, piano and synths and fantastic guitar noise.