Frankie & The Heartstrings

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4...according to our Business Lady on Thu 10 Dec, 2009.

Got ourselves a little mystery AA single here...It's by a mysterious urchin rock group called 'Frankie & The Heartstrings' but that's pretty much all i can tell you about them....well, they're on Rough Trade, so they're probably not all that mysterious after all. A side 'Hunger' is a reet knees up of a tune in the vein Dexy's Midnight Runners, mixing indie rock with elements of northern soul to create a catchy little pop number. Flip it over and you get heartfelt balladeering steeped in reverb and room ambience. It's called 'Fragile' and it sounds kinda.....fragile, i guess. So, one tune for partying and one to act as the morning after hangover cure...not bad. We'll probably sell a shed load!!! CHRISTMAS!!!

limited to 777 copies on rough trade - hand stamped by the band. frankie and the heartstrings are a brand new old-fashioned pop band from sunderland. coming fully formed out of the north-east, the five-piece played their first gig last christmas and have been grafting solidly for a year, writing and rehearsing at night, holding down full-time jobs working in schools, social care and charity shops during the day. they say that art thrives in the face of adversity, and in a town like sunderland where the young would rather cross fists than swap mixtapes, frankie and the heartstrings are soul-brothers, the dreamers who dared to think big. 'hunger' is a fantastic golden nugget of a pop song that recalls the golden era of postcard records crossed with a little dexy's. it demands repeated plays and shouts "we're gonna be massive".

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