Tiny
Philips
write songs “for
the dancers and the drinkers, the lovers and the fighters” which is
just as well given their home-town of Manchester has an abundance of
all four. Their blend of jangly indie-pop brings to mind bands such
as the sadly-missed I
Was A Cub Scout
and the XFM championed Bastille.
New
single 'Lumiére' starts with a crisp sounding drum intro before
layering a catchy and upbeat synth loop over the top, that has you nodding your
head before you even realise you're doing it. The lyrics are candid
yet have an accessible radio-friendly overtone which will appeal to
the masses, especially during the chorus which you can imagine being
sang back to DJs in any number of indie-clubs across the country.
There
as been a recent influx of bands becoming ever reliant on synth loops
of late. You only need to listen to the recent Dutch
Uncles
album to understand what I mean. Tiny Phillips do use a lot of synth,
something that really doesn't appeal to me; often. In the case of
this band however it really does work in their favour. Instead of
being obsessed with the 1980s like most synth-orientated bands, Tiny
Phillips have kicked electronic music in to the present; thankfully
without a sniff of dubstep in their music. They bring to mind the
ill-fated Go:Audio
or Saving
Amy
without upholding the neon-clad teenie-bopper aesthetic that the
aforementioned harboured so vehemently.
Radio-friendly;
upbeat; fantastically produced. All words which would describe
'Lumiére' (and the band as a whole) perfectly. This is certainly
music you can drink, dance and love to. As for the fighters, I'm not
really sure where they play out in all of this. But you'll be having
too much of a good time to notice their absence anyway.
8/10
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