Will Sergeant

The swirling guitars of Can Sergeant continues to be among Echo as well as the Bunnymen’s distinguishing characteristics because the band’s inception in 1978. In the beginning just playing a one-string acoustic guitar, Sergeant was influenced from the punk movement’s minimalist method of music. Nevertheless, Sergeant was also enamored of ’60s psychedelic rock and roll and the relationship of both spawned the brittle, otherworldly acoustic guitar audio of Echo as well as the Bunnymen’s 1980 debut LP, Crocodiles. On Crocodiles, Sergeant unshackled his Like, Doorways, and Velvet Underground affects and sharpened the sides, creating bleak, dreamy scenery that countless imitators would give food to from. Post-punk and fresh wave bands like the Chameleons, the Mighty Lemon Drops, as well as the Sea Blue intoxicated themselves on Sergeant’s ethereal riffs. In 1982, Sergeant released a single recording of instrumentals, Styles for Grind. After vocalist Ian McCulloch departed from Echo as well as the Bunnymen in 1988, Sergeant documented another Echo as well as the Bunnymen LP in 1990 without him. Entitled Reverberation, the recording introduced vocalist Noel Burke as an alternative for McCulloch. The recording was a industrial and crucial flop. When Sergeant reunited with McCulloch as Electrafixion within the middle-’90s, grunge experienced conquered the alternative-rock picture; as a result, Sergeant cranked in the amps for Electrafixion. But followers didn’t accept Elektrafixion’s hard rock and roll details; in 1997, Echo as well as the Bunnymen reformed with Sergeant, McCulloch, and bassist Les Pattinson. Sergeant in addition has released ambient music beneath the name Glide.