Member Since: 9/5/2005
Band Members: 4
Influences: The Fall, Fire Engines, Swell Maps, Talking Heads, Pere Ubu, Richard Hell, Wire, Clinic, Pavement, Essential Logic, Kleenex, The Raincoats, The Slits, PIL, Texas Pete, The Breeders, Jaques Tati.
Sounds Like: "The sound of experimentalism in 1978 being replayed in 200[8] - Hypnotic stuff" - MANCHESTER MUSIC.
This is joyously 'new-wave' and genuinely does sound as though it could have been recorded at any time from 1980 to the present day, although the latter's preoccupation with robots and boy / girl shout vocals (think Bis, Los Campesinos! and Johnny Foreigner) do give a clue. The decision to package these four songs as one EP and not to single one out is to be commended, mainly because choosing between them would be a difficult yet hugely pleasurable task - each track being the perfect emodiment of 150 second, rhythm-driven punk pop.
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"A pointed, growling take on indie-pop" - SANDMAN.
"If Nikki Sudden (RIP) and Mark E Smith had covered Pere Ubu's The Modern Dance in the style of Franz Ferdinand following a particularly heavy drinking session, it would have sounded something like Navvy" THE DEVIL HAS THE BEST TUNA.
"They sound like The Yummy Fur...Trivial, tuneful, percussive pop noise" - DROWNED IN SOUND.
'never have we listened to a debut EP and been so equally impressed by every track: whether it’s the wonderful art-pop urgency of ’Sticker’ or the devil-may-care call-and-response chorus of ’Letters’, it’s what we’d call ’mindblowing’ were it not for the fact they seem so polite about it.
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Record Label: ARC
Type of Label: Indie