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Dinosaur Pile-Up

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Leeds trio welding Nineties grunge riffs to outsized pop hooks — power-trio volume with choruses built for rooms much larger than the ones they started in.

Dinosaur Pile-Up formed in Leeds in 2007 around singer and guitarist Matt Bigland, who wrote and played most of the parts on the band's earliest recordings before a settled live line-up came together. The sound draws openly on American alternative rock of the 1990s — thick, detuned guitar riffs and a rhythm section mixed loud — but the songs are built around plain, repeatable choruses rather than sprawl.

Albums including Growing Pains, Nature Nurture, Eleven Eleven and Celebrity Mansions trace a gradual move toward bigger, more direct writing, and the trio has spent much of its career touring, both in the UK and in the United States.

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