The stand-out track from what is without doubt a very strong contender for my album of the year. So far...
Somehow this exceptional band keep on putting out exceptional albums. This track - the fourth on HEY WHAT - might just be their finest hour. Though your long-suffering speakers might beg to differ.
Hands-down my favourite local band from my time in Oxford. Wax Cat takes things to another level altogether.
I was lukewarm on The Ultra Vivid Lament, but this - a duet with Sunflower Bean's Julia Cumming about the relationship between brother and sister artists Augustus and Gwen John - is a beaut, and is (whisper it) superior to ABBA's own comeback songs.
What it would sound like if the Doors had actually all taken acid out in the desert and recorded together there and then.
Hint: the album version of this is even better. Yes, really. Largely because it's not over quite so soon.
Radically different to the stripped-down solo acoustic version performed at the Gig Buddies fundraiser in June - but just as good. Heavenly still know their onions, evidently.
As recommended by a friend who was blown away by them at Green Man (and I can understand why, hearing this sort of thing in that sort of context). This track channels Rage Against The Machine in its attack on gentrification.
Proof (thanks to Will Ainsley) that it was unfortunate that my first encounter with Suuns was latest record The Witness.
The first taste of new material from Lindsey Jordan. The jury's out here - but with that chorus, it might yet win me round.
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