"Anthemic, horizon-stretching noir-pop." The Fly Magazine
Seeing Scarlet burst onto the live circuit leaving accolades in their wake, then set to work on their debut album. Captivating from start to finish and set against a backdrop of melodies that bury themselves deep inside your brain, 'We Will All Be Aliens' is a snapshot from their lens, a cross-section sliced from a life in which people too often communicate without speaking, live without feeling.

Response to their first limited edition single Ugly Girl / Never Good Enough was immediate: it sold out rapidly and made waves in critical quarters.. "Alluring" (Music Week),"stunning" (Room Thirteen), and "glorious" (Glasswerk).

Seeing Scarlet fell from the four corners of Britain and its crumbling Empire (London, Harrogate, Bournemouth and South Africa, obviously). The day after flying over from the Southern hemisphere to start sixth form in London, Charlie Beall met Tom Goodfellow in the boy's toilet at a girl's school (the meeting wasn't planned), and asked him if he could play guitar. Tom nodded - and soon he could. On meeting bassist Jim Bell at his university quarters a couple of years later the three started to hatch plans of forming a band. Further down the line they found Charlie 'Sticks' Layton pummelling a drumkit in a room in Old Street, and the final piece fell into place.

the band have been singled out by critics not only for charlie's incomparable vocal style and soul-pinning stare, but for the passionate intensity of their stage presence. angry young men perhaps? 'Not necessarily angry. But always Intense.' declares Charlie, leaving you wondering if there's anything else he wants to add. There isn't. And certainly the force of the energy and emotion in their music speaks for itself, with some songs turning on a knife-edge from anger to euphoria: An Eye in the Storm and Music Will Save You document moments of escapism from the disaffection evoked so vividly in their other songs.

After meeting Seeing Scarlet you may leave with more questions than answers, but you get the sense that this is precisely the value of their outlook: an exploration of the questions thrown up by the world as they see it - questions that other people might not bother asking. 'After all' says Charlie, his famed stare momentarily transforming into a mischievous twinkle, 'we're a band and it's not our job to explain anything.the idea is we're like a camera, taking snapshots of the world as we see it - not a digital camera, where you can keep deleting if you don't like what's going on in the background till you get the perfect picture, but an old-style manual one, where you get what you've taken.'

This is a band with all the dark intrigue of Depeche Mode or Interpol, the social dislocation of Radiohead, the wit and disdain of the Smiths. It may take a while before we figure out what lies behind that stare but with songs like these we know we'll enjoy the ride.