the oddly named findo gask
it worries me when i find myself agreeing with radio one (and two) dj’s about… well anything really, but especially music.
this lot seem quite popular with some of wirelesses biggest irritants (messrs lowe, radcliffe and maconie) and also vic galloway but he’s alright, right.
anyway everyone seems to like findo gask (not the identically monikered place in perth & kinross or the screamo band) but the purveyors of lovely electronicky pop music.
they lived (possibly), like some glaswegian version of the monkees, above nice n sleazys. a few years back they split a record with errors. they now have a shitload of wireyboxes. they released their debut single va-va-va through the optimo singles club in december on lovelylovely vinyl.
here, lies a mix (of the discothequelly variety) of that above mentioned single:
what do you think?
you may wish to utilise words such as: gossamer, celestial, fizzy, ethereal, lush…
if you’ve read about them elsewhere you’ll have heard all the usual lazy comparisons – cocteau twins, beach boys, associates – of which i’m sure they were influenced by but don’t sound toooo similar. eff why eye, gerard black does not sing like aled jones. maybe a choirboy version of roddy woomble. maybe even (unfortunately) morrissey but i’ll gloss over that ugly detail.
what they do do is manage to combine yr standard band stuff (ie guitars, drums, singer, keyboards) into some death from above style new order-isms. it’s verse chorus verse played through a bjork-filter.
what it is, is lovely pop music played by a bunch of nice young men.
recommended.
