The band have a number of admirers, Steve Lamaq, John Kennedy, Huw Stephens and Don Letts have given the band radio airtime. They have also played with The Fall and British Sea Power and had a song used in a Vicks advert. This of course does not make the song perfect, and on first listen it sounds like a jumbled mess and the vocals are inaudible. In fact they are not inaudible they’re just confusing because of the speed. You have to listen closely to check they are not talking about midgets. The song, though, is a grower which leaves me with a perfect quote from one of the bands influences, Chris Morris, “If you take a seal and hit it very hard in the face, every day, for six weeks, you may turn it into a very fetching hat.”
P.S. For all pedants out there, both I the reviewer and TSCCC are aware that infant seals are known as pups not cubs. It just sounds better apparently.
Release Date 29/03/2010 (Boon(e) Records)