The band then secured a distribution deal, and followed with a few low-key releases for small independent labels. It was last year that the label Mute came on board, after browsing through a Rough Trade shop and discovering one of their singles. Remarkably impressed by what they heard, Mute promptly signed the band for a five-album deal, thus creating what would seem like the ideal home for the experimental and diverse nature of Appliance's music. They just get into the grooves and they work them. In some respects we do like a lot of dance-orientated like bands like The Chemical Brothers .
Dance music is so eclectic.
It's not so hemmed in by what you've got to sound like. It's not like we're jumping on a bandwagon - if you like stuff, you like stuff. As well as drawing from various strands of music, the band have also made a conscious decision to base themselves outside of London. In reference to the band, we decided to be based here, and not to go to London. We have our rehearsal space and we just lock ourselves away and create.