- Label
- Accidental
- Release date
- 2nd March 2009
- Genre
- Indie
Stunning prog pop debut from band dubbed UK’s answer to TV On The Radio.
It’s tempting to think that many contemporary bands hop between genres, cock a snoop at musical rules and create music that defies being pigeonholed. Rubbish of course but it’s only when you hear an album like this that you realise what a fallacy that is.
London Girl, the most instantly likable and breakthrough possible track here, covers within its lovely four minutes lifespan Bloc Party-style existential doom, a groove that would feel at home on a Chic album, glitchy Radiohead electronica and a falsetto so high it’d make Antony Hegarty wince. Unless shoegazing funk already exists London Girl is a breakthrough in the science of great pop.
The best songs (OK, Constant) are equally diverse and compelling with tense, nervous grooves tugging at Dave Okumu’s gloomy vocals and taking him somewhere a bit more friendly and upbeat.
Patience may be tested by some of the subterranean atmospherics but those looking for a British band as challenging as TV On The Radio and The Animal Collective will find it here.
More to try:
Holly Fuck: LP
ZZz: Running With The Beast
Friendly Fires: Friendly Fires
TV On The Radio: Dear Science
