Televised Crimewave - Listen And Repeat
Our Rough Trade Post Punk Vol.1 compilation has gone missing. Now, we don't usually like to point the finger but after hearing Televised Crimewave's debut single, Listen And Repeat, we have our suspicions.
Formed out of the wreckage of atonal Leeds also-rans Black Wire – whose chaotic live shows were purportedly an inspiration for the Kaiser Chief's overplayed ode to Broken Britain, I Predict A Riot – Televised Crimewave have both a great name and a rather brilliant penchant for post-punk pilfering.
Listen And Repeat cuffs a jagged guitarline to clattering drums and a studiously disinterested vocal from Dan Wilson. It sounds like The Birthday Party (if Nick Cave had learnt to sing a little sooner) after spending time with Swell Maps (after a quick stint at finishing school).
The b-side, Objects Of Desire, is a similarly tense affair with chiming guitars and a sense of paranoia that would make Robert Smith smudge his eyeliner. Wilson wrings enough drama from the song's two-and-a-half minutes to fuel Eastenders for about six weeks.
Televised Crimewave play up their love of Pixies and Pavement on their Myspace page but listening to them is like jumping in a Ford Granada retrofitted with a Flux Capacitor and travelling to an indie club in 1982. That's not a criticism, it's a recommendation.
Mic Wright
10:13 AM | 27/03/2009
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