Bachelor Of Arts Biography / April 2009

Bachelor of Arts are a three piece noise-rock band from Melbourne, Australia. It's a city perpetually on the move yet with a moody and overcast story to be told, much like the sound of the band. With this grounding, Bill Forshaw (Guitar/Vocals), Angus Tarnawsky (Drums/Vocals) and Kevin Mcdowell (Bass/Vocals) create some of the most startlingly interesting pop music you'll come across. It channels the exploration of the late 70s NYC scene crossed with the shifting rhythms and sense of restraint that the 90s Chicago scene was known for. What Bachelor of Arts create is precise, full of energy and littered with the kind of chaotic elegance that is exciting on a record or witnessed live at a show.

They've toured Australia extensively, covering the country several times over and in March of this year they embarked on a three week tour of the United States. The past two years has seen the group sharing stages with the likes of Japanther (US), These New Puritans (UK), Bakelite (CAN), Die! Die! Die! (NZ), My Disco, Witch Hats, Fabulous Diamonds, Mercy Arms, Tic Toc Tokyo and Ohana in all sorts of venues, galleries and spaces.

This year also sees the international release of their debut album Infinite Jest. Upon it's 2008 limited Australian release, Rip It Up Magazine described the album as "A strong debut...There's all the vocal intensity, angry hooks and antagonistic bass of the punk side and the calculated guitar stabs, complex rhythms and looping noise that are math rock staples...about the same consistency overall that you'd get if you blended experimentalists The Fall with Black Flag."

Captured live to 2" tape by engineer Finn Keane with help from long time friends Sloth and Neil at Head Gap Studios, It's full of life with a gritty sound that underpins the road Bachelor of Arts has travelled.

Be sure to catch the band as they hit the road in support of both Infinite Jest and a special US Tour 7" split record with NYC band Dinowalrus