Das Wanderlust - Puzzle

have so far released two 7" singles. The first single, “The Orange Shop”, was named by BBC 6music's Marc Riley as his no.1 single of 2006, and reached no.14 in the annual festive fifty. They have recorded sessions for Huw Stephens at Maida Vale (BBC Radio 1), for Marc Riley in Manchester (BBC 6music), and for John Kennedy at XFM. They have performed at various UK & European festivals including the inaugral Latitude Festivals of 2006, and as the sole representatives of the BBC at Eurosonic Festival (NL) in 2007, which was accompanied by a half-hour live slot on Radio 1. They have toured with Maximo Park, Art Brut, Persil (NL), and many others. The new single “Puzzle” is the first single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming debut album and it’s a real gem, it also sees the band return to Don’t Tell Clare Records after a brief stint with Fierce Panda off shoot Cool For Cat’s.  The band themselves find it hard to classify themselves beyond the deliberately vague self-applied term ‘wrong pop’ and critics seem similarly unable to agree on the band’s sound veering in opinion between structure less avant-garde experimentalism and super-melodic noise pop. Think melodic Sonic Youth meets Euros Childs with a bit of Pavement thrown in and perhaps you’re somewhere near.This is a really great “Wrong Pop” single, it’s great indie music in the original sense  and with Rocket and Sainted on board taking care of Television, Radio and Press combined with a huge U.K and European tour and excellent video this single promises big things. The single has already begun to receive national airplay and the group were recently featured in the Guardian as band of the day!

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