The Naked Dancing EP, by Honeytrap (CD single on Tough Love)

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Tough Love Records mark the turn of the New Year with the second release by Midland-based four piece Honeytrap. The Naked Dancing EP, released on Monday 15th January, marks the first release by Honeytrap on CD format, following a successful 2005 spent touring the UK, America and Europe. Consisting of four new songs and replete with wax sealed card packaging, the EP will be strictly limited to just 500 copies. . Opening track “Let’s Do Naked Dancing”, recorded with Editors cohort Gavin Monaghan at the Magic Gardens in Wolverhampton, is typical of Honeytrap’s brazen pop sensibilities. Drawing influence from mid-period Flaming Lips and the vocal acrobatics of Sparks, the title track is imbued with the wit and imagination fans will have long associated with the band. Representing Honeytrap’s most instantly memorable moment recorded to date, the track stands testament to the band’s famed eccentric personality. Standing in stark contrast to the euphoria of the opening track, “I Don’t Know How It Begins” displays the range and quality of material at Honeytrap’s disposal . At 6 minutes long, the brooding intro and climactic crescendo combine with an enigmatic vocal performance to recall the dynamic tension of the more melodic strains of Post Rock. A longstanding live favourite, “Spotlight” sparkles with pathos and a wide-eyed innocence, built around the two schizophrenic vocal performances that suggest carefree celebration and emotional depth in equal measure. Closing the EP is “Mussolini’s Son”, the most recently written recorded of the 4 tracks and thus the most demonstrative of Honeytrap’s current muse. Drawing heavily on the klezmer punk the band encountered on their tour of New York in February 2006, the band embrace the transcendal energy of eastern European folk, recasting it as a 21st Century polka rock hoe down.

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Follies In Popular Cities by Honeytrap (CD, £6.99)