Black Candles, the new EP from The Year Zero Band is finally getting close to completion.

It's been over 2 years since we finished our first record, Panic! In Year Zero. Since then we have all been dabbling in various side projects, the most ambitious being the critically acclaimed (by no-one) Hip Hop act, the Cazual Gangstaz with the 'Keep it Cazual [EP]'.

Recently the focus of the group has been drawn back to our unfinished acoustic effort, which has turned out as 'Black Candles'. What had started out as an idea for an 'acoustic' album has resulted not quite so acoustic-focused, but drawing on more retro sounding effects, plus Lapsteel and Organs have given the finished product quite a nice warm, yet vintage sound that we are most proud of.

The Year Zero Band still consists of our 3 original core members: Mungo, Arnie and myself, Gaz.

However, we do have some extra players on this record, so far we Nick who has lended us his bass skills on a few tracks, also Hannah, who will be exercising her vocal chords as well as playing some organ / guitar... whatever takes our fancy basically... They will also be joining the live band for any shows.

Hopefully a few more people will be lending us their talents on the finished product.

Over the coming weeks we plan to be posting up demos of songs as we record them. The EP is 50% complete, and we are still writing and recording new songs for it.

Thats it for now....

Until next time, keep it cazual...

Gaz