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...according to our Phil on Fri 23 Mar, 2007.
One of my favourite indie things of the week is the POPULAR WORKSHOP single on the Fake Product label. The bottom line on this one is that's it's a just a fuckin' great tune. There's a bit of a Twisted Charm thing going on with the vocals but it's really jerky and at times it's quite Chicago maths rock with hints of Shellac in there. That's probably misleading mind you as it's more a jerky angular punky thing than anything Shellac would ever do. It's just the middle 8 and drums that remind me of them. The drums are wicked though... really motoric! This is the shittest review I've ever written. Shame cos it's a good record 'n all. Some you win and some you lose...2007 sees Popular Workshop return with ‘Stutter And Dance’ their first EP, released on Fake Product Records (Lost Penguin, Nightingales and Theoretical Girl). Following on from an Xfm Live Session and last year's successful split 7" single on Tigertrap Records, the band are excited to be releasing the next step in their musical master plan.
The ‘PopShop’ rehabilitation model was inaugurated in 2005 when pseudo-brothers Jake and Luke found Gypsy and forced him to "sing whilst playing the guitar". The three share a dedication to the development of simple and complex motorial coordination, and absorbed themselves in the learning of motorial, psycho-motorial and expressive sequences. One drums, one bass and one guitar was neither too little, nor too much, for the band to create a tightly wound precision assault of a live show.
Over a hundred gigs in 2006 saw them play with the likes of Guillemots, Blood Red Shoes, Acoustic Ladyland, Twisted Charm, Los Campesinos to name but a few. On record they create their own world of art-disco and discordant chaos inspired by and compared to a spazzed out danced up Sonic Youth, Placebo, Bloc Party, Shellac and Elastica.
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