Cutthroat Convention is a hand operated cutting instrument. It consists of a pair of metal blades that are connected in such a way that the sharpened edges slide against each other allowing it to cut easily through hard dense bones. Cutthroat Convention is well known for its psychological effects which can include closed and open eye visuals, a sense of time distortion and most of all an enlightening auditory effect which may include echo-like distortions of sound.

Cutthroat Convention are a musical law unto themselves, they’re like no one else, it really should sound alien and awkward, it really isn’t... Even at this early juncture you know who it is straight away, a couple of DIY demo releases and they’re already instantly recognisable, now there aren’t too many bands making their first moves that you can say that about. Strange lines, twists, things that really shouldn't be happening or at least shouldn’t be working in terms of conventional rock music. This is seriously progressive other rock and they really don’t sound like a single other band out there, or at least any band we can point a signpost at as some kind of vague dancing about architecture type clue... They’re London based, via Japan, their packages always stand out, so does their stencil art and hand made creativity that fanfares each batch of fresh music. Seven tracks this time, all good and they had us lost for words last time and they have us even more lost for words this time... And all their creations are there to cling on to,  outbursts of franticness, strange lengths, twitches, gibbers, darkness, sinister bits, disturbing bits – strange rather than difficult or awkward or hard-boiled, Cutthroat Convention are strangely easy to listen to – very very strangely easy and just so compellingly different  - and yes, they do sound Japanese, very strangely Japanese though, like the strangest Japanese movie full of animated cat-buses that somehow makes such obvious sense. Cutthroat Convention are just different, they’re impossible to describe, they’re rather good, they’re very very good with their strings and their slowly burning skin and their seeing of the light and the rain and their sinister undercurrents and different time signatures and strange lengths and... This time the music turned up in a mysterious hand-painted box along with loads of good looking artwork and tales of parasites and their paradise and... and... and ...oh just go find out, hit the link and find out, they really are worth finding out about, go now...

organart.demon.co.uk

"if your after something completly different CutThroat ConVention achieve this goal in spades....."

Tom Robinson Show BBC Radio6

"but more interesting are UK/Japan's CtC, a nutball visual art project as much as a band. Expect crazed violins among their post-punk stylings"

Time Out

"they’re a London based Japanese/UK band and they sound like nothing we’ve heard before. Strange otherness and thankfully we have a radio show to bring you things like this rather than having to merely write about them"

Resonance FM

"eclectic unique, behind some excellent intimidating vocals and great playing,love the name Cutthroat Convention.first class"

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