"Leeds four-piece, who make music that is artful yet accessible, intelligent yet danceable, complex yet catchy. The vocals are quintessentially English and rendered with a folkish clarity, the guitars are used for riffs and irascible rhythms, the songs skip and slide, jerk and bounce, but everything is condensed into three taut, tight minutes and played with vigour, if not venom" (Paul Lester, guardian unlimited).

Following on from two critically acclaimed singles on Marquis Cha Cha the band signed to burgeoning indie I Can Count Records and subsequently released the 'Factfinding EP' in December of last year, before following it up with current single 'Brouhaha' (Artrocker Mar-08 Single Of The Month). Having become friends whilst at school, Alex and Ben met Matt somewhere along the line and if legend is correct, encountered Jim wandering the moors one day.  In testament to argument being the mother of all song writing inspiration, they named themselves O Fracas.  As they put it, "Fracas is a reference to writing songs via blazing arguments, the act of creation through force, like a Super Collider. Originality is born of forcing things together that conventional thinking says won't go together".  The album condenses the bands first 3 years of work, influenced by the likes of Fugazi, Fela Kuti & Talking Heads into one un-cohesive package. Ranging from the folky lament of 'Menwith Hill' to the frenetic avant-rhumba-punk of 'Zeroes & Ones,' a dystopian view of "the idea of a 'liberating' universal internet consciousness."

01. BROUHAHA 02. FACT FINDING 03. THOUSAND TIMES 04. YOU CAN HEAR THE  WORLD FROM MENWITH HILL 05. WHAT JIM HEARS 06. AND SO A SCRATCH RUNS DOWN A WALL 07. FOLLOW SUE 08. SIXTEEN BEATS 09. FORFEIT 10. TRAIN TRACK 11. FALLING FAST BEHIND 12. ZEROES AND ONES