Methyl Ethel is an Art rock and Dream pop band from Perth, Australia that formed in 2013.

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Background

In 2013, Jake Webb started Mythel Ethel as a way to express the sound he was creating in his bedroom and transmitting them out to the ears and minds of the public.

He began to experiment with recording textural seemingly Shoegaze style of Dream pop combined with a Psychedelic rock that penetrates the quotidian landscape.

He wrote, recorded and released two complimentary EPs titled Guts & Teeth under the moniker, Mythel Ethel. ^{[3] [8]}

Webb came with the name while working his father at fiber glass company.

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For Methyl Ethel's crepuscular and reverb-laden debut album, Oh Inhuman Spectacle, Webb wrote, played and recorded everything before bringing the album to Chris Wright, an introverted sound engineer at Perth music venue The Bird.

"*I mix songs in an unorthodox fashion.

Chris would say 'This isn't right...but it* sounds good'," Webb enthuses.

Wright preserved the spatial sound of the record while making Webb go back and tinker away to get the songs to where they needed to be.

"He showed me work-arounds ," he says.

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By late 2014, the local buzz around Methyl Ethel was warming up and Webb needed a proper band.

Thom Stewart - a good friend - came on board on bass and it made sense for Wright to join the lineup as the drummer just as the single ‘Rogues' started cutting through on all–important local radio with the line, "In the summer, it was 40 degrees outside, inside it's 43.”

That’s where the Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control label discovered them, signed them, releasing Oh Inhuman Spectacle nationally.

Unexpectedly, 'Rogues' won Pop Song of the Year 2014 at the Western Australian Music Industry Awards.

As Methyl Ethel played more shows and a fanbase grew, another song from Oh Inhuman Spectacle, 'Twilight Driving', took Best Single at the WAM Awards a year later.

This time, they also won Best Pop Act.

Recently, Methyl Ethel drew the attention of tastemakers from the northern hemisphere after debut US shows at New York's CMJ conference.

Their electric live performances impressed Rolling Stone, NME, The Guardian, and 4AD, the latter will give Oh Inhuman Spectacle its worldwide release in 2016.

Closer to home, Methyl Ethel were voted into the Triple J Hottest 100 and Oh Inhuman Spectacle has been shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize, up against Courtney Barnett and fellow Perth act Tame Impala.

*Oh Inhuman Spectacle *

Oh Inhuman Spectacle is the first studio album by Methyl Ethel.

It was initially released and distributed by Dot Dash Recordings and Remote Control.

In 2016, the album had an international distribution by 4AD.

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