The band was founded by Laura Macfarlane, who played drums in Sleater-Kinney, in 1996 as a solo project. The first album, 99, wasrecorded with her playing all the instruments. Not long after she assembled a band. The current lineup includes Cameron Potts, Meg Butler and Iain McIntyre.

Ninetynine's music hasbeen described as art-pop, combining elements of indie rock, post punk and power pop with strong melodic elements and a playful approach. Some oftheir songs incorporate experimental elements such as unusual time signatures or exotic scales. One of the band's trademarks is the use of Casiotone keyboards and chromatic percussion (typically a vibraphone) in their music, with the musicians frequently swapping instruments between songs, even sometimes in the middle of songs.

Links

• Ninetynine Facebookpage• Ninetynine Bandcamppage

Recordings

•99 LP (Patsy,1996)

• 767 LP (Patsy/Chapter/Endearing, 1997)

• 180 degrees LP (Patsy/Radio One, 1999)

• Anatomy Of Distance LP (Patsy/Stickfigure, 2001)

• The Process LP (Trifekta, 2002))

• Receiving the Sounds of Science Fiction EP (Dark Beloved Cloud, 2003)

• Worlds Of Space, Worlds Of Population, Worlds OfRobots LP (Unstable Ape/IfSociety/Stickfigure 2006)

• Silo EP (Patsy,2008)

• Bande Magnetique LP (Patsy, 2010)

2 Liveshows and tours

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