NEWBEATS
The great thing about rock ’n’ roll is that just when you think you’ve run out of great adjectives with which to describe a band— and great bands about which to use those adjectives—another group comes along that inspires you to try again. One annoying bit that comes from being on this end of the typewriter, however, is the habit writers have of using other bands to describe the sound of a new one.
NEWBEATS
OVER THE WOODENTOPS
The great thing about rock ’n’ roll is that just when you think you’ve run out of great adjectives with which to describe a band— and great bands about which to use those adjectives—another group comes along that inspires you to try again. One annoying bit that comes from being on this end of the typewriter, however, is the habit writers have of using other bands to describe the sound of a new one.
Having said that, on to the band that has inspired such words as glowing, exuberant, joyous and fresh'; a mixture of the Velvet Underground, XTC, Suicide and the Smithswith-a-sense-of-humor. The band is the Woodentops, a London quintet with an intense, delightfully itchy pop sound; The more you scratch, the more you want to hear. Manically-possessed drumbeats, driving acoustic guitars, cheesy organs and melodic basslines surrounding lyrics dealing with varying shades of social interaction from rejection and love to friendship and despair.