This is their first single for Rough Trade (they had some more low key releases and freebie singles which change hands for silly money already). I’m sure the last thing they need is a middle aged music bore playing ‘spot the reference’ but I’ll do it anyway – I hear a bit of Pere Ubu, This Heat, Josef K, Wire with maybe a bit of Cardiacs and those US rock bands from the 90s that got tagged as ‘Math Rock’. They’re young so maybe they haven’t heard any of that stuff but arrived at their own thing through other routes. Ultimately it’s a perfect balance of instantly catchy and really odd and I like it. Oh, and you should hear the B-Side….woh.
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