Something is wrong with English music. Aside from a seemingly endless tranche of lad-rock, some decent Scottish indie and a few chop-and-mix artists, there are frustratingly few blow-you-away-alt acts.
Stag and Dagger should have been a revelation. Highlights included: Fierce Panda stage openers Mazes, who flitted from punchy punk jams to an exercise in successful Supergrass-by-numbers generi-rock.
Mazes : Painting of Tupac Shakur [via]
Also La Shark - who presumably are engaging in some gender deconstruction - were touted by the promoter as The Best Live Act I've Seen In Six Months. The lead singer, dressed as part clown, spent most of the set riding a hobby horse around the crowd which wins many audience participation points and handily leaves you distracted from the actual musical output, too excited with shaking maracas on the stage. It might've been good. On record, listening is dramatically less interesting.
La Shark : 1958
And then, some other shouty/ravey/electro crap which defies genres in its mediocrity. Maybe I chose the wrong venues. Maybe I chose the wrong bands. But it seems that all the genuinely inspired indie acts are coming out of somewhere other than the Shoreditch scene. Surprised?
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Newish release from the fledgling Forest Family Records.
Gauntlet Hair : I Was Thinking
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