ALBUM: Seal Cub Clubbing Club – Royal Variety
Seal Cub Clubbing Club’s ‘Royal Variety’ sounds like a mix of Radiohead, Terrorvision, Hot Chip, Arctic Monkeys, Oceansize, blah, blah, blah, blah… If you want to read a review about who this album sounds like, then go elsewhere – because although it’s easy to compare SCCC to Radiohead, especially when listening to songs like ‘The Borough’, the comparison is disingenuous, because when reviewers compare bands in this way, what they really mean... Read More
SINGLE: THE SEAL CUB CLUBBING CLUB – MADE OF MAGIC
Formed on the Wirral, the posh side of Merseyside, TSCCC arrive with a new cut from forthcoming album “Royal Variety”. I guess with a title like that we can expect an appearance from the Queen, the cast from a Lloyd-Webber musical, Cliff Richard and a ventriloquist/magician. It would seem none of these appear on this release; there may be a ventriloquist but it is very difficult to tell. Instead there are some “high-speed car-crash vocals”,... Read More
