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London trio
Nedry mix sinister basslines and skittering beats straight out of dubstep with ethereal guitars and vocals that suggest
Björk or
the Cocteau Twins. The earliest version of the group -- whose name pays homage to the traitorous park programmer in Jurassic Park -- began in 2007, when multi-instrumentalist/programmers Matt Parker and Chris Amblin teamed with vocalist Ayu Okakita and collaborated over the Internet. In early 2008, they started meeting face to face in preparation for live shows, but Okakita departed the band for a short time to return to her native Japan. Meanwhile, Parker and Amblin continued
Nedry, honing their sound with performances as a duo. Okakita returned to the band in early 2009, and they began playing and recording as a trio in earnest, performing gigs with acts including
Pivot,
Maps, and
Daedelus. They self-released the SZ EP that summer and issued the mini-album
Condors a few months later on Off the Shelf Records. The growing acclaim for
Nedry's music -- which included praise and airplay from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, and XFM -- led to the band's signing with Monotreme Records, which reissued
Condors in 2010. While the trio spent much of the next two years touring with like-minded artists including
Pivot,
Daedelus, and
These New Puritans, they issued In a Dim Light, which was inspired by the moody works of
David Lynch and
T.S. Eliot, in March 2012. ~ Heather Phares