Cut Your Hair has some great ‘wo-oh-ho’ backing vocals and the guitars don’t let up. A song with life and opportunities for jumping up and down at gigs, just what music needs. Fort Washington starts of with echoes of Terrorvision’s Ten Shades of Grey and doesn’t disappoint in the ‘singalong chorus’ stakes.rn rnThe Russian Greats is indeed great, a girl says ‘you’re such an aresehole’, the guitars are jangly and the singer sounds like he really doesn’t ‘know why I came here’. Part Morrisey, part, well, it’s too cheerful for Richard Ascroft but all the references coming to mind are from the golden age(s) of British indie/guitar music. rn rnThe Equation is essentially a ‘lost-love’ song but the simple guitar melody lifts it above depressing, shoe-gazing early 90s indie. Great harmonies build up and stick in your brain. They’ve got no gigs scheduled for Nottingham coming up but as soon as they do, I’ll be there.rn
Reviewed by: Mary Armson
Label: Denial records
