Luke Sipka and Dean Spaniol of Bells and Robes were back in Gainesville on Saturday to perform songs off their newest extended play.
Grooveshark, an online music-streaming service, hosted the release of “One Should See Sound Part II” at The Jam, located at 817 W. University Ave. Saturday’s show was the second-to-last stop in Florida for Bells and Robes on Dynohunter’s The Nomad Tour.
The EP, which was released on Grooveshark on March 31, is another step in their exploration of sounds and was played between performances by Dynohunter, Sumilan, Ardency and Designer Drugs.
One of the tracks on the album, “Leo,”features sounds from an office space, such as a fax machine and telephone, along with a pen writing on paper. The band plays live instrumentation over backing tracks of obscure sounds to create a genre called Livetronica, Spaniol said.
It adds depth and texture to the music, he said, but lyrics are left out so that listeners can find their own meaning in the music.
“We kind of covered a lot of the electronic spectrum on our last EP, and this one is a little bit more narrow,” Spaniol said.
They ran the new EP through a Solid State Logicanalogue board to combine and tweak audio signals, which they said they hope is a step up from their past work. Sipka jammed on a synthesizerthat mimics instruments and creates new sounds, and Spaniol played drum samples on a Roland Octapad.
"It gave it a really beautiful, warm and creamy sound," Spaniol said.
Sipka said their process still seems hacked together because time and money is lacking, but he’d like to add more members and sounds as the band grows, as well as incorporate more live instrumentation and improvisation into future shows.
Corey Alloe,a 26-year-old Gainesville resident,said an upbeat energy between the band and crowd made Saturday’s show the best one yet.
“They’re on top of their game and only going to get better from here,”Alloe said.
Bells and Robes perform at The Jam on Saturday night during the release party for “One Should See Sound Part II.”
