The Wombats Emoticons (Jan’15) so fucking much is one of the best indie songs of 2015. It sounds like New Order, but also good Scissor Sisters in patches and sometimes even The Cure. The sum of the parts is a song like Tijuana donkey cock, a ripper so big it’s scary.
The start is a little rock, guitar taking lead, a ramble down the road. The verses a get the dance on and tell the tale of a relationship and the chorus is a big one with the take home message. Emoticons is a lot dance, very pop and true blue indie rock. Describing a failure to communicate on an intellectual level. Or not. Irony. Either way, arses are grooving and hips moving because The Wombats have hit a deep vein of shit hot awesome here.
“And
all these emoticons and words,
Try to make it better but they only make
it worse”
The
Wombats are an indie dance rock band bouncing out of Liverpool, England. They
have been on the job for thirteen years. Emoticons
is the third single off their third album Glitterbug
(Apr’15).
Shit
you need to know:
The band met studying at Paul
McCartney’s school for music in Liverpool.
The
new album was produced by a chappie who did the same for Bastille, Mark Crew.
The album is about pretence, envy and
struggle in modern cities, but specifically Los Angeles.
In
a heroic list of musical generals the singer cites influences that include Michael
Jackson,The Beatles, Foo Fighters and New Order.
Other ‘pie-hole shutting, time to get strutting’
tracks include Let’s Dance To Joy
Division, Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves)
and Greek Tragedy.
The
vocals in the last track put me in mind of the Canadian indie dance/rock band
Le Trouble and this fucking pearler Real
Talk (Part 2) (2014).
It has a "I just got straight punched in the ball-sack" falsetto.
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