The Isles - Summer Loans

It's been a good summer for the New York foursome, with their album Perfumed Lands ('A slow burn album for all seasons. 8/10' - NME) prompting positive reviews and so it's no surprise they want to extend it for as long as possible. New single Summer Loans has an unmistakably East Coast groove but such an intrinsically familiar tapestry of woven guitar parts and vocal melody you'll swear you've been getting up to dance to it for the last ten years. Lovingly put together in their self-made studio, Summer Loans manages to capture the echo of the great New York outdoors as well as the claustrophobia of the great New York sprawl. They're a curious distillation of Britpop and East Coast punk and now honourary Mancunians in spirit and sound. We hope you'll make them feel welcome.

"I'm very sensitive to heat. It renders me useless".- Ben

The lead track is accompanied by True South and Pills From Mexico on the flipside. Ben would go as far to list the latter as one of the band's three best moments to date, a paen to "consecutive hangovers, relationships gone awry, people that I thought I loved, people that I know I hate..... constant duality in thought all mixed up with a bit of hope".

"We want to continue pushing the boundaries of what you can do in a simple song and ways that you can express the world at large and your place in it. I can't foresee where that will take us, but hopefully we'll get some people along for the ride and we'll be able to continue paying our electric bill."

Even if it means they have to go totally unplugged, we hope there's plenty more where this came from in the coming seasons.

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