London quartet Operahouse have a different take on the style currently being pedalled by The Enemy and friends, but still stay loyal to a killer chorus.

The Guide spoke to Operahouse guitarist Alex Kaines, who said that the band describe their sound as a "big, epic, sci-fi thing."

Operahouse have structured their music using the educational building blocks of Radiohead, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Blur and Velvet Underground.

Alex said: "There's a lot of indie pop out there, and it's all, like, two-chord verse, four-chord chorus.

"We try and sculpt songs and make them more like a piece of work, more like a piece of modern music. Not just another indie pop song."

And big and epic is about right.

Released by Marrakesh Records (a label set up by the people responsible for unearthing The Killers), the band's upcoming debut album is produced by Richard McNamara from those similarly minded peddlers of big anthems, Embrace.

The band have built up a live reputation already, and their three singles thus far – Man Next Door, Born A Boy and Diane – have been hailed by Zane Lowe, among others.

But what about the "sci-fi thing"?

The clue is in Change In Nature, a song about both climate change and the first monkey to be sent into space.

Fellow guitarist Johnny Lloyd added: "With everything that's going on in the news, like global warming, Richard Branson trying to build commercial space craft, it's everywhere. We're genuinely interested in it. It opens people's minds.

"If you hear about something in the news that might sound a bit sci-fi now, then the people watching will already be starting to think outside the box, which is only good for the future."

The band have just come off a run of shows with The Automatic, and Alex said it was a really good tour to get involved with.

He added: "The Automatic came to see us about a year ago, so they invited us to play with them for this second album tour. We've also played with Noah And The Whale and Dirty Pretty Things, and next year we're looking a doing a big UK tour."

Support comes from The Brays and The Throwaways.

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