Breton

The London-rooted indie collective Breton centers its work on D.I.Y. principles, multimedia projects, and audio-visual experimentation. Roman Rappak and Adam Ainger launched their partnership in 2007, after which Ian Patterson and Daniel McIlvenny completed the lineup once the musicians established BretonLABS inside a South East London warehouse. While crafting their own urban-electronic rock laced with dub textures, the members pursued external projects that ranged from short-film production to remixes for Tricky and Lana Del Rey and music-video direction for Penguin Prison and Newlsland. This outward-looking approach defines the group’s creative identity. After issuing the Practical EP in 2010, Breton delivered three additional EPs and then aligned with Fat Cat Records, which put out the band’s first full-length album, Other People’s Problems, in 2012. Despite extensive touring that year, the musicians still found time to complete two further EPs in 2013. When their London premises faced demolition, the collective relocated operations to Berlin that same year to track the follow-up album War Room Stories, issued in early 2014.