I Am Kloot

"Head and shoulders above most of the competition... Rarely has a lack of popular success been so baffling." The Metro ..The best kept secret in UK indie... The Sun "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride, and if critical plaudits were album sales I Am Kloot would be pulled along in carriages made of gold records that would make the Queen literally sh*t with envy. Really special." Time Out "Johnny Bramwell from I Am Kloot is one of the four most talented songwriters this country has produced in the last ten years. Two out of these four have Irish surnames ...." Pete Doherty THEY say the devil is in the detail. Maybe, but god-like genius hangs out there, too. In a world that now seems to take notice only of melodramatic soundbites and grandiloquent gestures made against lurid, 2-D backdrops, I Am Kloot are a Harold Pinter real deal to everyone else..s overblown, Cecil B de Mille mock-ups. The rough ..n.. tumble of realism is what makes Johnny Bramwell (singer/songwriter and guitarist), bass player Peter Jobson and drummer Andy Hargreaves tick. It..s the source of I Am Kloot..s misanthropic and surreal wit. When cut with their own brand of beat-up romanticism, it..s also what caused a girl to faint clean away during the band..s first gig outside Britain [in Paris on Valentine..s Day, 2001] when she heard them play ..Twist...I Am Kloot is a little universe we..ve created I Am Kloot is not a band, it..s a world. It..s an enigmatic one because it..s both brutal and charming. It..s ruthless and endearing, it..s full of contradictions and .. it shifts across the sky like the weather...