The Maccabees - 'About Your Dress'
Some bands have endless amounts of strong drink on their tour rider (the list of things they want tour promotors to give them backstage before they go out and ROCK the KIDS), some bands demand posh cheeses, or vegetarian food, or a jam, spam and lamb sandwich each with a side order of peanut gravy. Maccabees are not a band like other bands. It's a fair guess that one of the things they have to have in order to make the music that they make is coffee. Coffee and Red Bull..and cola and Lucozade and sherbet fountains and a great big air horn to blow into each other's faces before they pick their instruments up.
Nothing else could really explain the sheer jItTeRy attention-deficit-disorder gibber and twitch of their impatience pop. Even in the quietest bits, none of the band can keep still. Guitars bash against each other, the singer rants and raves and spits foam down his mic stand, and the drummer seems to be constantly trying to kill an imaginary army of ants which has swarmed all over his kit. Beauty sleep must be a foreign land to this lot
And the song changes all the time! There's about ninety different bits in it, and it only lasts two minutes. Which is brilliant and all, but one man's value for money is another man's trainee nervous breakdown...
Released: February 26th
(Fraser McAlpine)
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