The Cribs是英国的一个三人组独立摇滚乐队。乐队有双胞胎兄弟,低音吉他手兼和音Gary Jarman和主音兼吉他手Ryan Jarman以及他们的弟弟鼓手Ross Jarman组成。
三人不够十岁便制作了第一张Home-made唱片给家人耹听。在家人的“不反对状态”下,The Cribs最终能够在Wichita得到一纸合约。由2004年的首张专辑The Cribs至2005年的The New Fellas,The Cribs竟能近乎毫无偏差地奏出悦耳又耐听的旋律,每首歌曲无论独立耹听或者把整张专辑反复播放一整天,耹听者也会得到欢愉恩羡的满足感。The Cribs原定有4名成员,但吉他手Johnny Marr于去年离队。乐队迄今已发行四张专辑,其中最近的专辑Ignore The Ignorant获得全英排行榜第8位。
The Cribs于千嬉年成军,音乐风格以流行、前卫为主,但Gary Jarman称,自己不太爱听时下的流行曲,因商业味太重,而且大部分都与摇滚无关,略感失望,反而较常听非洲音乐,而最喜欢的乐队则是披头士。
by Heather Phares
Yorkshire, England's the Cribs feature three brothers: vocalists/guitarist Ryan Jarman, bassist/vocalist Gary, and drummer Ross. The trio began playing together at an early age, making their debut at a family party in the late '80s when twins Gary and Ryan were nine years old and Ross was just five. The brothers grew up with similar musical tastes, blending quintessentially British influences like the Beatles, Sex Pistols, and Smiths with American indie rock like Beat Happening and Bobby Conn. Eventually, the Cribs got to play with both Beat Happening's Calvin Johnson and Conn; Conn liked the band so much that he invited them to record with him in his Chicago studio. The Cribs released three singles, Another Number, What About Me, and You Were Always the One, before signing to Wichita Records in late 2003. The band spent 2004 readying their self-titled debut album, which was recorded in London's famed Toerag Studios, touring with the Datsuns and performing at that year's CMJ Festival. Late that year they began working on their second album with Orange Juice's Edwyn Collins as producer. The Cribs was released in the U.S. in early 2005. Later in the year, the band issued their second album, The New Fellas. Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, which boasted production by Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos, arrived in 2007.