DOWNLOAD: Male Bonding - Pumpkin

If you want to get things done today and you haven’t listened to any music yet, let this track from London’s Male Bonding blow the crust from your eyes. Kicking with delirious pop-punk glee, "Pumpkin" is a rush: American Hallowe’en as seen through the eyes of film-watching English suburbanites. Lo-fi bands in checked shirts are springing up like happy weeds all across London and its dowdy edges at the moment, as love for LA Smell acts like No Age, Mika Miko and Abe Vigoda ripples out into the provinces, but Male Bonding were doing what they do way earlier than most and it shows, no lazy appropriation of noise to mask sloppy pop or affected mid-Atlantic phoney-vox. Instead, "Pumpkin"’s full of tight-knit joy blasts and intricate, cowbell-laden breakdowns: out along with tracks by Old Blood, Graffiti Island and Rapid Youth on MB’s own Paradise Vendors Inc label this week. Do yourself a favour

Sounds Like: Descendents, Parts & Labor, Talbot Tagora

 

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  • Dave Wed, 2009/04/29 - 8:13am

    Brilliant track

    Sounds like ALL, if they’d met in Dalston. In 2009. Fantastic.
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