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Spire Cranes is the math-rock/electronica project of Kent-based artist Richard Smyth.
Writing, recording, producing and playing all of the instruments himself, Spire Cranes blends elements of jagged edged IDM with aggressively ethereal guitars, tribalistic Japanese drum styles and neo-classical instrumentation.
In a live environment, Spire Cranes uses a plethora of battered and broken electronics to loop and manipulate a range of instruments including guitar, piano, drums and vocals in a manner that ensures that no two performances are ever the same.
In this way, Spire Cranes has played across the length and breadth of the UK, alongside the rock and indie fraternity, as well as the avant garde electronica scene.
”..Using a PC, an electric guitar and assorted technical wizardry, Spire created a vibrant, highly rhythmic contemporary psychedelic rock sound that captivated the audience. Innovative, original and unique…”
- Cult Media Magazine, August
With everyone suitably relaxed no one was prepared for what came next: Spire Craines. One Cambridge man sporting his guitar, a laptop and what looked like a jazzed up, old skool Yamaha keyboard. All the keys had been taped up and playing cards had been stuck to it; there was clearly some sort of code going on, but it was lost to us, the plebs. The laptop acted as a loop pedal and pretty soon crashing electrons were the order of the day as heavy guitars thundered and the Spire Craine was huddled over his equipment creating ten-minute epics.
His set was highly experimental, filled with a wall of sound built up with interesting textures, breakcore beats and avalanches, and yet, peculiarly, he still managed to sound like Muse. Almost randomly, he’d break into a heavy-metal influenced section. This fiercely alternative set couldn’t have been any more different from Like Spinning, but this was by no means a bad thing.
- Under The Music Tree