Hey, hey we’re (not) the (Arctic) Monkeys
Bromheads Jacket anyone? More new, new wave Northerners with jagged guitars and ‘observational’ lyrics. NME is raving about their new single, What If’s and Maybes (which I can only seem to find here on 7″ vinyl, which might be very cool, but is frankly worse than useless). There’s a couple of downloads on their site from an earlier ep called Surrey Girls and Samsung Ringtones -( which, incidentally, has exactly the same meter as my favourite Arctic Monkeys track: Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts.) Lots of fun, if you like that sort of thing.
January 2nd, 2006 at 1:11 pm
this has been played quite a bit on Virgin’s upstart digital station, V Xtreme. It’s still on their playlist
http://www.virginradioxtreme.co.uk/music/playlist/index.html
along with tons more guitar-toting laddish upstarts. This station’s good in smallish doses…it all starts to sound the same after about half-an-hour tho’