Spector

Spector is the name used by more than one act. The best-known is the four-piece band from Dalston, London, made up of Frederick Macpherson, Thomas Shickle, Danny Blandy, Yoann Intonti and Jed Cullen, with Christopher Burman leaving the group in 2013. Another act using the name is a digital and electronic music project centred on John-Paul Denton, originally developed with John Elliott and later continuing under Denton alone.

Dalston indie rock band

The London band work in indie rock and released a series of singles before their debut album, including Never Fade Away, What You Wanted, Grey Shirt and Tie, Chevy Thunder and Celestine. After Celestine, the band announced their first album, Enjoy It While It Lasts, which appears in 2012. It reaches number 12 in the UK Albums Chart and tops the Official Record Store Chart. The album is noted as receiving mixed reviews.

In August 2012, the band plays Reading and Leeds Festival for a second time, appearing on the larger NME/Radio 1 stage. Later that year, Friday Night, Don’t Ever Let It End is announced as a single, with a video directed by Alan Del Rio. In 2014 and 2015 the band issues further material including Don’t Make Me Try, All the Sad Young Men, Bad Boyfriend, Reeperbahn, Stay High and Cocktail Party / Heads Interlude.

The band’s second album, Moth Boys, appears in 2015 through Fiction Records. Around its release, the group plays an intimate London show at The Lexington, then an intimate set-and-signing tour, followed by a 13-date UK tour in October with Yoann Intonti on drums and support from Spring King and Bill Ryder-Jones.

Electronic project

The other Spector project begins as a collaboration between John-Paul Denton and John Elliott. It works across various genres, then develops into pop-tinged, electronic-fuelled dance music, with guest singers featured on each track, including John Elliott.

Its early releases include Drift Away on Sog in Switzerland in 2002 and The Haze in 2004. The project appears on Nick Warren’s Reykjavik GU24 with Avatar / Dub In Time in 2003, then remixes Dave Seaman’s Own Worst Enemy for Audio Therapy in 2004. Further releases follow on Steve Lawler’s Harlem imprint, Forensic, Apache Records and Nascent, including Marshal Lore / Its Good To Talk, Elektrify, Lawless and Narcotic Fuel. It also remixes Trafik’s Club Trafikana for Global Underground, releases material on Denton’s own Alibi Vinyl imprint, appears in a Channel 4 advertising campaign, and is included on John Digweed’s Transitions 4 compilation.

John-Paul Denton’s work under the name also appears in PlayStation, PC and Wii games and in major television advertising campaigns.