THE ILLS - Cold Wind's Riot (music video)

THE ILLS ( www.myspace.com/theillsmusic )

Shoegaze/post-rock band from Bratislava, Slovakia:
The name was originally created as a joke involving a jam session from which a track was created. After that moment in september of 2008, it was a joke slowly transformed into a serious group effort. Growing together and discovering their own unique soundscape influenced by post-rock and shoegaze, they quickly garnered attention through several gigs in the Slovak and Czech scene and played at festivals like Creepy Teepee in Czech Republic or Wilsonic in Slovakia. Their first EP called We Love Silence, But Silence Is Awkward was released as a free download through slovak netlabel EXITlabel. After this release The Ills played their first slovak tour with band Čisté Tvary, shared stages with bands such as kolowrat, Moustache, Rosa Parks, Dawn To Come, Teapot and mainly, supported Trespassers William in Vienna, A Sunny Day in Glasgow in Košice or Stafrænn Hákon in Budapest.

To Wish Impossible Things, their debut album, also their first physical release, is called after The Cure song and combines shoegaze sound with post-rock aesthetic and emotions of live concerts. It consists of eight tunes, three of them appeared in different versions on their previous releases - We Love Silence, But Silence Is Awkward EP and Lost Trams EP. Also it's the first recording of The Ills from professional studio, even though it was mixed and mastered by their guitarist Martin Krajčír, also known as Isobutane.