Gaggle - I Hear Flies

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5...according to our Phil on Thu 04 Mar, 2010.

It's a while since we've really liked much on the label but I was intrigued by this Gaggle 7". For 2 reasons.... For one it's a 20 piece female band dressed in shrouds who look like the Polyphonic Spree (sorry but you're gonna get that a lot), and secondly the sleeve has loads of maggots on the cover which I wasn't expecting. 'I Hear Flies' is a kicking tune.... It's got a dancehall beat with a choir of women screaming "I'm a drunk" over it.... Think The Belle Stars times a hundred on a These New Puritans tip and you're half way there. It's a belting tune and it ends in a complete insanity with people shouting and screaming... Ah just like home.... The flipside 'I Like Cigarettes' is equally as nuts with them singing that they like cigarettes (admirable), guitars (equally as admirable) and knitting patterns (don't you want to marry 'em all now). It's well busy, full and raucous but then with a twenty piece band with attitude sticking their musical oar in then I suppose it's gonna be all those things. Excellent!!

“I Hear Flies” is the debut single from the 20 strong all female choir GAGGLE. Led by Deborah Coughlin, the girls unleash chaotic chants of “I’m a Drunk” over dark, dubby beats. Backed by the equally arresting ‘I Like Cigarettes’, GAGGLE have brought us the first truly original single of 2010.

"The most extraordinary band I've heard in a long time." Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1

“Gaggle – the most exciting, innovative and genuinely imaginative force at large in music right now…..they’ll be simply massive in 2010” NME

“Fantastic” Heat

“Are something you want to experience live....they're brilliant which is extremely exciting." Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 6

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