Halo Halo + Float Riverer + Sex Hands

 

HALO HALO

Currently the toast of the London underground pop scene, this awesome three-piece features Rachel of Trash Kit on electric banjo. Their sound, as demonstrated on their debut 7″ Manananggal (Savoury Days Records) sits somewhere between the repetitive chamber pop of Electrelane, with whom the band share an affiliation, and the crazed whooping/hollering of Bow Wow Wow or Adam & The Ants.

Vocals are shared between Rachel and drummer Jack, who create fractured harmonies that soar over the heavy foundations laid down by bass/keyboard player Gill. Definitely not one to miss!

FLOAT RIVERER

This Manchester duo, formed in 2010 while hitch-hiking across the UK, delivers all the hooks, punishing the audience with a relentless, venomous, catchiness. Drummer Kate (also one third of grrrl-punk heroines Hotpants Romance) pounds her two drums in a repetitive, motorik style. Her vocal has the rasp and depth of a Holly Golightly and, when she screams, well, she SCREAMS! Guitar player Nick (also known as singer/guitar player in Beach Fuzz and I Had An Inkling) mangles shrill, rhythmic repeato-riffs out of his Telecaster and spits out his lyrics in with a high-pitched androgynous stutter. The band just released their first album on Golden Lab to rave reviews (see below) and have also completed a six-week European summer tour with Turn To Crime, hitting 11 countries and over 5,000 people.

“Consistency. Repetition. Hypnotism. Dance-trance. Spacemen 3 as heard through a very narrow filter indeed. They just get straight down to it, 10 seconds in and you could be 10 hours in. I’d like to hear that, actually: Float Riverer playing the same riff for 10 hours straight, the vocals sometimes dropping out. (Songs of course actually last only a few too-brief minutes.)Only formed in Manchester end of last year, and every song sounds roughly, brutally, gloriously the same. Fucking great stuff.” Everett True, Collapse Board

SEX HANDS

This awesome trio who now reside in Manchester, formed in Wales back in 2005 when they were mere adolescents. Now they’ve grown into (im)mature pop song writers of the very highest calibre. Sheer pop joy with a tongue-in-cheek approach to lyric-writing that, if you listen closely, references a certain hugely successful American sit-com in every single song. Do not miss them!

 

http://halohalo.bandcamp.com/