Envy & Other Sins

British music band

Envy & Other Sins was a four-piece band from Birmingham, England, who came to fame by winning Channel 4's nationwide talent show, mobileAct unsigned. They were the winners of the show, on which they won a £60,000 record contract with A&M Records. The contract allowed them to release one album and two singles. Their first single, "Highness", was released on 3 March 2008, and their debut album, We Leave at Dawn, was released on 31 March 2008.

On 1 July 2009, the band announced they were to split up,^[1] with Jim Macaulay becoming the drummer for Eliot Sumner, Emmy the Great and The Stranglers during the next decade.^[2]

Musical style

Writing about the band in November 2006, British music magazine NME described their songs as "catchy in the extreme, with sweet harmonies, wicked hooks and choruses a-go-go".^[3]

Discography

Albums

Singles

Demo songs

• "Man Bites God"
• "Step Across"
• "Talk to Strangers"
• "Tomorrow"
• "(It Gets Harder to Be a) Martyr"
• "Words Fail"
• "Almost Certainly Elsewhere"
• "The Company We Keep"

References

1. [1] Archived 19 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Jim Macaulay". Active Music.
3. Phull, Hardeep; Smyth, Cassie (25 November 2006). McNicholas, Conor (ed.). "Radar Special". NME. London: IPC Ignite!: 16. ISSN 0028-6362. OCLC 60624023.
4. "The Official Charts Company – Envy & Other Sins". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 17 October 2010.

External links

• Envy & Other Sins at AllMusic
• Official Bebo