1) The Angry Years – Dress Yourself As Someone Dead
Juliette Jackson is the singer fronting this three-piece who say that, whilst being inspired by These New Puritans, early Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Queens of the Stone, Outkast, DOOM and the like, they’re also adhere to the principles of Theo Van Doesburg and the De Stijl movement.
Hmmm, for us plebs at TOW we needed more information on that last one! Juliette says: “The DeStijl thing is mainly to do with minimalism and cutting out flab. We try to cut the flab out of our songs.”
“We liked Theo Van Doesburg’s idea of deconstruction, where he would paint something like a cow again and again, each time reducing the features more and more, until all that was left was what he considered were it’s essential elements.”
Gotcha. And, well, that’s exactly what this band do. Juliette is backed by Sean Fennelly and Joss Lindey and the band’s new track Dress Yourself As Someone Dead is a no nonsense, slightly creepy, rip-roaring rock tune – complete with a kind of rap by one of the boys, completely dead pan.
We’ll be keeping an eye on this young London band!
2) Call The Doctor – Take It Out
Not usually a fan of bands described as “jerky, girly post-punk” by the NME, Call The Doctor have gone and surprised us. Take It Out is their new single out on the 21st March 2011 on Glasstone Records.
It’s lead vocalist Patti Aberhart’s crystal clear, distinctive and melodic vocals that draw you in. It’s not the voice you’d expect to hear on a track like this, and we’re sold.
Patti is 23 and from New Zealand and is an eyeful live, or so we believe. The band are looking to inject a whole lotta love back into the live music scene – they’re setting out to make gigs fun again. Considering the last gig TOW went too was crammed full of people nodding furiously along to the music… we’re up for that!
“Take It Out” Spring UK Tour:
March 1: Buffalo bar, London
March 11: Cooler, Bristol
March 17: Censo, Basingstoke
March 18 : Sunflower lounge, Birmingham
March 24: Hobgoblin, Bath
March 26 Chameleon, Nottingham
March 27 Northern Monkey, Leeds
March 29: Cool For Cats at Old Blue Last, London