Description:	Ltd 7" on Moshi Moshi
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Pop
	Label:	Moshi Moshi
	Price:	£2.49
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Clinton on 02 October 2008.

I saw Tilly and the Wall live once and I laughed all the way through, not that they were rubbish or anything - it was laughter of joy in that it was wonderful to see a tap dancer on stage. I want to like this new single called 'Beat Control' but on first listen- I don't really like it. Gone are the Bright Eyes-isms - good. But thats been replaced by a more commercial sheen. Its catchy and joyful but unfortunately it could be anyone. I was wondering where tap dancing would fit into this tune and the simple answer is that it doesn't. But the second song does start with a tap dancing solo before launching into a much more likeable tune -even the bloke gets a go at singing half way through. They do sound an awful lot like the Go! Team. I wish the B-side was the A-side and the A-side was the B-side but I can wish all I like and it won't happen.

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What their label says...

With jacked up electro-pop and Riot Grrrls do 'Grease' bad attitude, Tilly And The Wall make their contrasting and eclectic return.  Double a-side single Beat Control / Too Excited

Basking in vibrant technicolour Beat Control has a startlingly addictive charm, caught betwixt Toni Basil and Miami Sound Machine. A hybrid of their own close-knit harmonies and bumping electro-pop, it's
juxtaposed by the rollercoaster ride of Too Excited; a veritable merry-go-round of hip shaking tap, overdriven guitar, cussing and swearing, and dizzying keyboard hooks.  Here is the unbound and experimental new pop of Tilly And The Wall, cast eagerly into the spotlight.

Produced by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Lightspeed Champion) forthcoming album 'O', is their most collaborative effort yet; with the songwriting hat of every member thrust into the ring, the result is a
cohesive yet wildly experimental record. Drawing on four years of touring with the likes of Lightspeed Champion, Of Montreal and most recently CSS, the result is a vision of Tilly And The Wall more vivid, emboldened and immediate then ever before.

Just four years ago Tilly And The Wall emerged from Omaha with debut album Wild Like Children,  revealing their unbridled and potent combination of singsong boy-girl vocals, charging acoustic guitars, of course the synonymous tap dancing 'drummer'. These 'growing up songs' about not wanting to grow up, losing your love to the road, and the urge to force the night as far as you could take it, evolved into the universal themes of the sophomore album Bottoms of Barrels. Just as the band matured into the bigger themes of freedom, courage and rebellion on that second album, now they have realised tougher, sharper, stronger charges of beat and song on their third.

TRACKLISTING: 7” & CD: (1) Beat Control (2) Too Excited