Pop Will Eat Itself

Formed in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England, Pop Will Eat Itself emerged in the mid-1980s in the wake of the grebo scene, before evolving their approach toward a denser blend of indie rock, hip-hop culture, electronics and, later, industrial rock. Centered on Graham Crabb, Clint Mansell, Adam Mole and Richard March, Pop Will Eat Itself quickly stood out for short, nervous tracks filled with sonic collages, and refined that formula on Box Frenzy (1987), This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! (1989), Cure for Sanity (1990), The Looks or the Lifestyle? (1992) and Dos Dedos Mis Amigos (1994). Their trajectory also includes work with producer Flood, tours across the UK, Europe and the United States, and collaborations with Fun-Da-Mental on "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" and with The Prodigy on "Their Law." The band split in 1996, briefly reunited in 2005, and relaunched the project more permanently from 2010 around Graham Crabb, notably with Mary Byker, for new recordings such as New Noise Designed by a Sadist (2011) and Anti-Nasty League (2015). Since then Pop Will Eat Itself has maintained an identity founded on the intersection of abrasive riffs, electronic rhythms and pop songwriting warped by irony and saturation.