Heat vs. Light began by accident. More recording project than band, the duo of JP Keenan (ex Necessary Elvis) and Paul Higham (ex Wilson) began making a formal record of all subsequent accidents that occurred during 2004-05 and logged them under the title ‘The Haunted Tapes’. The mini album was described as “quite near to a work of art” by Manuel Ecostos (Manchestermusic.co.uk) who also used words like “as good as Elbow at their reflective best” and “inspiring and crammed with progressive verve”. A need to take the project into a more organic and live state forced a very serious accident (which cannot be found on Youtube.com) that severed one of its limbs and forced it into a period of regeneration. Heat vs. Light emerged as JP Keenan on vocals and guitar, Lee Rogerson (ex Necessary Elvis) on bass, Sean Roche on guitar and vocals and Steven Lockley on drums. It formed out of a love for post-rock dramatics and the never-ending song, intending to write music with accessible song structures while still retaining the atmosphere and euphoric climaxes of it’s peers. The resulting sound is dark, uplifting, epic and intelligent with a focus on melody, a huge sound and the mood created within the listener. Likened to Doves, Elbow, Interpol and Radiohead it creates a sound that is all this but very much it’s own as cues come from artists as diverse as Godspeed! You Black Emperor and Mogwai right through to Red House Painters and Tom Waits. The recent EP featuring tracks The Air Tastes of Strange Things, Like Stars and The Marathon was given 'Single Of The Week' by Manchestermusic.co.uk and got the band some record company interest.