Artist Biography
by Jason Ankeny
The British post-rock trio
Fridge comprised guitarist
Kieran Hebden, bassist
Adem Ilhan, and drummer
Sam Jeffers,
longtime friends from the Putney area who began playing music together
while attending school. A chance record shop encounter with another
friend helped put the group in contact with Output label chief
Trevor "The Underdog" Jackson, who signed them the next day; the first
Fridge record, the single "Lojen," was released in early 1997, with all three members still in their teens. The full-length
Ceefax followed a few months later, but it was their final release of 1997, the epic
Anglepoised EP, which won the group their first significant radio airplay and critical raves; the equally brilliant
Lign -- a tandem 7" and 12" release with no overlapping tracks -- appeared during the early weeks of 1998. The second
Fridge LP,
Semaphore, arrived that March and was followed by
Orko,
another 7" and 12" double-pack; the EP was their last new material for
Output, with the trio signing to Go Beat! soon after. A two-disc
collection of their Output singles,
Sevens and Twelves, was issued in late 1998, with a full album,
EPH, following the next year.
Fridge released their fourth full-length,
Happiness,
in 2001 on the Temporary Residence label. After that release, the band
took time off to pursue their numerous side projects and side careers,
with two members releasing solo efforts on Domino.
Hebden recorded material under the names
Four Tet and Joshua Falken,
Ilhan issued two solo albums, and
Jeffers
started a successful web design business while enrolled as a student at
Harvard and LSE. Their time apart may have proved fruitful, but the
guys were itching to tackle another album under the
Fridge moniker, and did so with 2007's
The Sun.
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