Active from 1990 to 2003, AC Acoustics (preferably stylized ac acoustics) from Glasgow, United Kingdom, briefly flirted with a breakthrough in the mid and late 1990s, when they were widely championed by the music press and by peers such as Placebo. However, they remained a cult band of Scottish indie rock, perhaps best known for their 1996 single 'Stunt Girl' and the 1997 Victory Parts album, which the band promoted on tours with Embrace, Stereophonics, dEUS and Placebo.

At their peak they combined dense, fuzz-heavy riffage with cryptic, poetic lyrics, before later introducing keyboards and moving into a sparser, more repetition-based direction. Initially, they owed a debt to The Jesus and Mary Chain, blending furious white-noise with early Pavement-style experimentation and augmenting their two guitar, bass and drums instrumentation with saxophones and violins.

Their first release was the 1992 5-track Wrist Eye demo, notable also for featuring Gerard Love from Teenage Fanclub on backing vocals. The demo gained them a recording contract with the independent label Elemental Records, who released their debut single, 'Sweatlodge' b/w 'MV' (1993). At this time, despite their relative obscurity, they displayed an aptitude for getting on the bill at relatively high profile gigs and opened for PJ Harvey, Spacemen 3 and The Jesus Lizard, amongst others.

In 1994, the band's debut album, Able Treasury, was released. Shortly after this release, Mark Raine replaced Roger Ward on guitar and the band began to move in a rockier, less feedback-drenched direction. This culminated in the 1997 release of the band's masterpiece, Victory Parts.

Despite the accolades in the music press, they remained a cult act. They left Elemental, signed with Yoyo Recordings, releasing the EPs Like Ribbons and [a;bum artist=AC Acoustics]She's With Stars. They parted with Yoyo in 2000 and moved to Cooking Vinyl, releasing a further EP (Crush, with backing vocal contributions from Placebo's Brian Molko). The band's line-up was augmented by a keyboardistand two further full-length albums followed: Understanding Music (2000) and O (2002), the latter being completed in a mere ten days.

Running out of steam, ac acoustics called it a day in 2003. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.