SINGLE: Dinosaur Pile-Up – Mona Lisa
‘Mona Lisa’ is the first single from Dinosaur Pile-up’s forthcoming debut album, Growing Pains. The Leeds three-piece makes no qualms about their love of the Foo Fighters, and this single certainly makes a fitting tribute. From the get-go there’s a pervading US, 90s feel; the late 90s particularly, where grunge metamorphosed into jock-rock. And like that latter period there’s a marked lack of the grunge era’s defining anguish, and... Read More
SINGLE: fun. – Walking The Dog/Be Calm
If people throw food at each other for fun, Fun throw genres, styles and influences at each other just for kicks, and because they can. These guys are massively playful and extremely talented. Walking The Dog is a joyful combination of Vampire Weekend, The Beach Boys and Wheezer. However (and it’s a big one), Fun also sounds intermittently like Mika, and that for me taints what would otherwise be an incredibly enjoyable experience. “Be Calm”... Read More
