65daysofstatic

English outfit 65daysofstatic craft a tense, dramatic strain of instrumental post-rock that draws extensively on electronic traditions including drum'n'bass, techno, and glitch. Guitar-led melodies and live drumming are fused with sampled beats and digital manipulation, an approach that recalls Mogwai alongside Squarepusher. Through relentless touring and a series of acclaimed releases beginning with their 2004 debut The Fall of Math, the group cultivated a devoted audience. During the 2010s their catalog shifted toward more dance-oriented work, notably the 2010 album We Were Exploding Anyway, which featured a guest appearance by the Cure's Robert Smith, while also venturing into soundtrack composition with the 2016 video-game score No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe. Later that decade the band began integrating algorithmic composition methods into both live performances and recordings such as replicr, 2019.

The project originated in 2001 when Joe Shrewsbury, Paul Wolinski, and Iain Armstrong came together. Armstrong departed in 2003, prompting the addition of drummer Rob Jones and bassist Gareth Hughes, the latter subsequently replaced by Simon Wright, to broaden the ensemble's sonic palette. Initial output mixed pop mashups and remixes with original pieces, appearing first on limited CD-R EPs and then on the proper debut EP Stumble.Stop.Repeat in 2003.

Their first album, The Fall of Math, surfaced in 2004 on the band's own Dustpunk Records imprint. Strong reviews and a nationwide tour quickly built a cult following. What began in 2005 as sessions for an EP instead yielded the full-length One Time for All Time; the group maintained a heavy touring schedule through 2006 before tracking a third album, The Destruction of Small Ideas, issued the next year and featuring contributions from members of the Mirimar Disaster, Digitonal, and Circle Takes the Square.

An invitation to support the Cure on their 2008 U.S. tour preceded the 2009 live album Escape from New York, documenting performances at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. The 2010 studio album We Were Exploding Anyway signaled a decisive move toward electronic textures and away from earlier post-rock frameworks; that same year's EP Heavy Sky further emphasized synthesizers, samples, and dancefloor influences. Around this period the band launched an IndieGoGo campaign to finance an alternate score for the science-fiction film Silent Running, a project originally commissioned by the Glasgow Film Festival for a live presentation in 2011; the resulting recording appeared later that year as a limited-edition vinyl pressing for contributors. Fifth album Wild Light arrived in 2013, restoring some of the guitar-centric elements of prior work.

In 2016, 65daysofstatic produced the soundtrack for the sci-fi video game No Man's Sky. Released in June by Laced Records under the title No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe, the album documented this collaboration. Between 2017 and 2018 the group staged Decomposition Theory or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Demand the Future, an endeavor that employed algorithmic music generation and live coding. Starting in May 2019, a series of monthly EPs drawn from that project began appearing, followed in September by the experimental electronic full-length replicr, 2019.