We show up on radar - Mountain Top

by Dave on Tue, 2009/09/15 - 4:08am

We Show Up on RadaR, just on the left apparently

Here’s another gem from Hello Thor Records, who had the fantastic sense earlier this year to release a 7inch by excellent Velvet Underground / Langhorne Slim crossover band Fists.

We Show up on RadaR is an altogether gentler beast, but just as compelling.  On new single ‘Mountain Top’, Speak and Spell vocals give way to a casiotone psychey sunshine pop nugget.  Like the Lovely Eggs, it’s just the right side of twee - managing to incorporate the sound made by those shimmery bell things and the lyrics ‘we’re riding our bikes’ without making you feel like you’ve overdosed on spangles.

B side ‘Spider on a Thread’ is a cunning acoustic folk tune, heard through a Euros Childs / Mystic Chords of Memory style filter.  It weaves together some Joe Pernice-esque hushed melodies, Super Furry Animals noises and the refrain from Que Sera Sera, like the arachnid in the title.

Like Benji Hughes’ ’ Went to see the Flaming Lips’, listening to this single induces a mild euphoria, encouraging you to realise that everything is actually pretty ok really.  It’s the perfect soundtrack to dozing off a few double whiskies, lying on a sun soaked hillside with a gentle breeze cooling your face. 

Shame we’re heading into Winter.  Can’t have everything can you?

WE SHOW UP ON RADAR ‘Mountain Top’ / ‘A Spider On A Thread’ is available from www.hellothor.com

Check out We Show up on RadaR on myspace.
  

 

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