some of it was true!

What is it with beguiling, surname-less women and besotted upcoming London bands?  First Al Cool & The Stranger Wines perved on lost love Celine, and now here’s Yuck (with members from Hiroshima and New Jersey as well as London) trying to empathise with a lady called Georgia.  They do so via a slice of bouncy punk that’s like a giddy wave of euphoria you know is only temporary, like a sneeze that you just can’t suppress, like a skip down a street.  The guitar sections are slightly 1990s rock (think Mr. Big) and the structure simple, but there’s a pleasingly blurry aspect, and some nicely distorted and slightly nostalgic boy-girl vocals.   A tour with Japandroids will apparently follow in May.

Thanks to Platform for alerting SOIWT to this – via its excellent new Jookbox music-blog round-up.

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MP3: Yuck – Georgia