The Shortwave Set
Casual Use &; Billy

This record left our Maggie feeling unmoved.

Now I have "Victorian Funk" from THE SHORTWAVE SET on Low Resolution records. A side "Casual Use" samples a madness track and creates a poptastic single which stretches from cheesy to inanely catchy. Male and female vocals are united to form a strong vocal line a bit like the Delgardos at their most relaxed. B-side Billy is a pretty catchy number too, but maybe too twee to swallow whole

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As has been duly noted by the people who note such things, the debut album by The Shortwave Set ‘The Debt Collection’ was almost certainly last year’s definitive release within the Victorian Funk genre. Memories of the hysteria which swept through Deptford and the surrounding streets in those heady minutes of mania are as fresh today as they were back then in the halcyon days of 2005. Now the band return with new wares, a taster for their second album due in Spring 2007 - a single which pairs new tracks ‘Casual Use’ and ‘Billy’. The recordings mark a move on from the junk shop collage of V-Funk and into what the band call their ‘industrial revolution’ period. Work on the album is ongoing at their South London shop/studio, a curious establishment where no money changes hands; items considered to be of roughly equal value are merely swapped. A golf club for a milk jug, for example. Not surprisingly the band is somewhat behind on their rent. ‘Casual Use’ came about when their manager (and landlord), the semi legendary entrepreneur Roger Dunwoody, stumbled upon 125 copies of the Madness single ‘My Girl’ during a house clearance. Roger suggested for reasons unclear that the band may wish to sample the track. The band enthusiastically agreed. Obviously. ‘Billy’ meanwhile is the sad tale of a former associate of the band who left Deptford to live in a soho flat which happened to be above that of a pop critic on one of the leading national tabloids. His life was never quite the same again.

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