Bold, brassy and brash, Comet Sands‘ single Andromeda (mp3) veers dementedly from angular-rock quirkiness through cocaine strings to a sort of all-in racket, before finishing with something akin to a burp, spent and pleased with itself. Other tunes on the London act’s free collection of songs – catchily called Recordings and Live Demos - are similarly careering, such as the his-and-hers hoopla of Somehow, or just super-snarey, like Lake Baikal, which must be the screwiest song ever recorded about a deep Russian pond. And then there’s the proggy The Beautiful & Damned, antisocial and ominous, like the sneering boy you absolutely don’t want your daughter to date, and absolutely know she will.
