Liverpool band who draw on their large
Velvet Underground fetish (even ripping wholesale the
bassline from
European Son during the fabulously-titled "
IPC Sub-editors Dictate our
Youth") coupled with a great fixation with
drums (all their
single sleeves featured them). The result ranges from a kind of
beat-heavy drone-pop to
wired garage-
punk. Their first three singles were issued on their own
Aladdin's Cave of
Golf label before signing to
Domino where the hard-to-find singles were reissued as a
mini-album. More recently, an album was issued by Domino, of which one of the singles, The Second Line, was (unfortunately) used in an
Evil's (
anag.)
jeans commercial
Discography:
- IPC Sub-editors Dictate Our Youth (7" single, Aladdin's Cave of Golf, 1997)
- Monkey On Your Back (7" single, Aladdin's Cave of Golf, 1998)
- Cement Mixer (7" single, Aladdin's Cave of Golf, 1998)
- Clinic (mini-LP, Domino, 1999)
- The Second Line (single, Domino, 1999)
- Internal Wrangler (LP, Domino, 2000)
- Distortions (single, Domino, 2000)
- The Second Line (reissued single, Domino, 2000)
Oh, and we watched them instead of
Limp Bizkit at
Leeds. We didn't
regret a thing.