Reviews for Chemical Reaction album (2020):

• “Connoisseurs of ’80s electro will find mind much to love on the Leeds-based trio’s second LP, jammed with exuberant, celebratory disco anthems that showcase the classic diva reach of singer Emma Mason” Mojo ★ ★ ★ ★
• “An instantly danceable album fit for parties for all ages, this may well be a hidden gem of the year” Backseat Mafia 9/10
• “A storming, potent, extremely direct return.” – Clash
• ‘Heartbreaker is a truly liberating track, lyrically and sonically.” – Get Into This
• “Pop perfection….It’s impossible to feel bad with this blasting behind you.” – Get Into This
• “Fitting between synthetic funk, elastic post-disco and smooth house moves… Chemical Reaction is the bullet-proof hit of sunshine that 2020 has so sorely been lacking.” – NARC 5/5
• “Galaxians are pumping out feel-good tracks likes it’s 1989.” – The Rodeo
• “Be it repetitive beats or loops, everything about this makes it a statement worth catching” God Is In The TV 8/10

Press for Let The Rhythm In (2017):

“Let The Rhythm In is a tour de force of excuberant club energy” CLASH

“Dazzling” Huffington Post

“Full of fresh flex and boogie bounce, this is modern soul done right. Jam-packed with fun and soul , LTRI demonstrates both a songwriting craft and level of musicianship unparalled across the UK boogie scene. Essential.” Piccadilly Records, Manchester

“Fiercely danceable astral-gazing trio tear up every show they play, regardless of who they’re billed with. A room full of indie kids, a room full of disco lovers, a room full of punks – they all fall hard for the Galaxians party” NME magazine

“Channeling New York’s late ‘80s “freak disco” (Was Not Was, Liquid Liquid, Arthur Russell) and Detroit’s Acid House scenes, Galaxians produce a maximum output from a minimal set-up.” Our Favourite Places, Sheffield Culture Guide

Within the music of Galaxians – the trio of Jed Skinner, Emma Mason, and Matt Woodward – lies a powerfully hedonistic strain that does much to loop a thread through the party lineage of their hometown of Leeds.

Coupled with the first impressions of what the pair loosely term their “pre-digital dance music”, you might not raise an eyebrow to find out that their cues are taken in-part from classic disco and house labels such as Sleeping Bag or Chicago’s TRAX, nor that their early EPs found homes across the Atlantic on the similarly-minded Dither Down in Brooklyn, and Atlanta’s Rotating Souls Records.

However, it’s the beating pulse of Northern England club life, married with the thriving independence of much of the region’s best venues and spaces that forces its way through in the band’s live shows and recorded output.

Galaxians’ soulful, muscular sound resonates a raw playfulness, and with the addition of Emma Mason in 2015, the band have forged a path to a sound steeped in the tradition of New York disco and boogie heavyweights such as Inner Life, Gwen Guthrie, and producer/writer Leroy Burgess.

In recent years the band’s appearances at Beacons, Blue Dot, Beat-Herder, and Tramlines festivals have gathered significant praise for the bristling energy of their live performances.

Galaxians have played alongside acts such as ESG, Dam Funk, Horse Meat Disco, Tom Tom Club, Jessy Lanza, The Juan Maclean, Golden Teacher, Auntie Flo, Zombie Zombie, Discodeine, Ultramagnetic MCs, Ital, and more.

Selected discography

• Chemical Reaction (2020)
• Let The Rhythm In (Dither Down 2017)
• Out They Minds (Dither Down 2017)
• Personal Disco Component (Dither Down 2014)
• Galaxians (Rotating Souls 2014)

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“Another EP of electronic funk brilliance from Galaxians. Opener ‘Ducketsz’ is a zero-gravity boogie banger combining a thick, brooding bassline with visceral Roland JX3P synth lines and tape-saturated TR-808 percussion. The exotic melodies and sunny drum programming of ‘Skydive’ offer the possibility of a Balearic crossover, and the seductive ‘Visual’ could pass for a lost Leon Lowman B-side until that synth bass solo rips through the speakers on a direct course for the dancefloors of 84”. Piccadilly Records, Manchester

“Galaxians’ mix of 16-bit synths and offbeat rhythms is an instant party trigger in the Noisey tent, with a partisan local crowd buoying them as they bounce their way through a journey of manipulated transmissions and veering hooks – each in turn spiking the mass in front into a delirious fever”. The Skinny magazine – Beacons festival review

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