Description:	7" on Melodic Records
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Melodic
	Price:	£3.79
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brian on 23 November 2006.

Don't totally get THE ISLES. Their tunes kinda pass me by in a foot tapping Orange Juice/C86 way. A yank hybrid take on the 80's that i'm sure Voxtrot do better. It's nice music, well done with a bit of soul but the Pixies basslines don't make their schtick any easier to love. I think they're a little airy. Don't know what 'Summer Loans' is about. b-side 'True South' has a bit of a Pavement/Cribs/Strokes feel & some sweet melodies but fails to engage me completely. I'm sure these songs just require a bit of patience & I really like their sound. Take them home & i'm sure if you water them enough, stroke them & talk to them, you'll grow to really like them. CD & ltd 7" thru Melodic. Check 'em here

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What their label says...

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.