One of our favourite caffeine-and-sugar-fuelled bands are set to release their second album - ‘There Is A Way’ on June 13th - via their own label, titled err.. ‘Pizza College’. Details to follow.
I’m usually reluctant to write about the same band twice in a very short period, but when a second Dananananaykroyd track fell into my inbox, how could I resist? I’ll save you the blurb from my Great British Hopes piece a couple of weeks back, and just encourage you to listen to Chrome Rainbow below. Somehow it manages to be louder, more shouty and faster than the song I posted last time. Something that is no mean feat given just how abrasive that last song was. God knows what their live shows must be like, but I’d hazard a guess that they are a hell of a lot of fun.
[Photo Credit: Lucy Johnston]
Favours For Sailors may hail from London, but it’s obvious that they were raised on American indie rock. Their tunes recall the likes of Pavement or Weezer, but with a penchant for big pop moments. It’s music that’s made for playing at top volume on the motorways at the height of summer. The band’s debut EP, Furious Sons, was just released last week on Tough Love Records. Keep an eye out for the band on XFM later this month, as well as several dates with Dananananaykroyd.
Talk about your unwieldy band names. Getting the right amount of anananana is bad enough, but then there’s the double header of Aykroyd not being the simplest name to spell either. The funny thing is that the music fits the name. If you’d asked me beforehand what I’d think a band called Dananananaykroyd would sound like, I’d go with loud and fast. And that’s exactly what we have.
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Dananananaykroyd. Granted, their name is terrible, but once you’ve got it down (there are four ‘n’s, two ‘y’s) it’s a perfect match for lunatic guitar workouts that burst songs at the seam, vocal hups ‘n yelps adding to the sense of bright-eyed delirium.
Dananananaykroyd/Pulled Apart by Horses/Calf by Calf @ The Harley, Sheffield
With Youthmovies playing at Sheffield University, Death Cab for Cutie at the Academy and Fucked Up and White Denim also playing in Sheffield, there was an abundance of live music on around the city tonight. However, it was a small pub, The Harley, that would boast one of the finest line-ups of the night.
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