Strange Boys - Be Brave

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 28 Jan, 2010.

I like singers that yowl & growl like cats. The guy from Strange Boys does that, like Iggy on helium. He sounds kinda cute, like he's fronting a cool garage band but he's only 12 years old. This band grow on you like fungus. They've got a traditional sounding lo-fi thing going on with nice touches of echo & reverb. It sounds like they use old valve equipment to record their songs, the best one of which i've just heard - the new single, 'Be Brave' It's a mid-paced number with a surfy picked guitar, a really simple drum rhythm & this smashing call & response echo from what sounds like a mini high-school choir! Oh, & occasional drunken blasts of punchy brass make themselves felt too! The whole thing struts & snakes its way confidently into your heart, leaving you tapping your knees and jigging your feet leaving you with a gormless expression of wonder just left hanging on your stupid face.................Ltd 7" on Rough Trade.

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Garage rock....big bollocks....small squeaky voice....big fat new label...tight jeans, probably all walk demented jack russell dogs with braces and have huge turn ups on their pants. I wanna be a Strange Boy

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