Close Lobsters released their first track, "Firestation Towers" on the NME's
C86 compilation. They signed to
Fire Records and released their debut single "Going To Heaven To See If It Rains" in October 1986. They released a second single "Never Seen Before" in April 1987 which strengthened their reputation as one of the leading emerging indie bands. They went on to release two albums:
Foxheads Stalk This Land was released in 1987 and
Headache Rhetoric in 1989.
Rolling Stone's review of "Foxheads Stalk This Land" called it "first-rate guitar pop from a top-shelf band. Close Lobsters could have been just another jangle group, but they have a lot more going for them than just chiming Rickenbackers." Their popularity on
United States college radio stations led to an invitation to the New York Music Seminar in 1989, which in turn led to an extensive American tour. They toured extensively in the UK, Germany, United States and Canada. The band eventually took an extended break. Glasgow, third Popfest Berlin and the 2013 NYC Popfest. In May 2014, Close Lobsters played the Copenhagen Popfest and released new EP, "Kunstwerk in Spacetime". Lead single "Now Time" received significant attention, and the band hinted at more new music to come in an interview with Sound.wav Music in July 2014. Close Lobsters's song "Let's Make Some Plans" was covered by The Luxembourg Signal on the B-side of their "Laura Palmer" single in 2017. In February 2020, the band released their latest album,
Post Neo Anti: Arte Povera in the Forest of Symbols. It is their first new studio recording in over 30 years, and
AllMusic noted "From the first strains of album opener "All Compasses Go Wild," it's uncanny how seamlessly the Lobsters pick up right where they left off". ==Discography==