Saturday, 9 October 2010
STAGECOACH
In the brilliant We Got Tazers!, London's Stagecoach have written the song that indie music has been awaiting for quite some time. It's the pop tune that Johnny Foreigner, Tubelord and Los Campesinos! have all never quite managed to deliver. They amalgamate the latter's fantastic quirk and the almighty Pulled Apart By Horses' raw rockability. It's catchy, it's punk, it has a cheesy chorus - it's everything anyone could ever want.
They released their debut album in 2009, but damn it! it went criminally unnoticed, virtually unreviewed by the press!
But the future looks bright for the young group. Their upcoming dates supporting Johnny Foreigner and the awesome Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltskin, alongside a performance at Huw S's Swn Festival, should hopefully allow their current dwindling popularity to gain momentum and grab the journos' attention.
In my opinion, the arrival of Stagecoach is the best thing to happen to UK indie since falsetto-beasts Wild Beasts cropped up in 2006. Anyway, up there is the marvellous video for We Got Tazers! , in which they showcase their brilliant dance moves and angry faces. The singer also looks like Yann from British Sea Power which is highly interesting.