Having streamed a couple of tracks by Deep Cut recently, now seems as good a time as any to introduce some visuals to the mix. Something’s Got To Give is a no frills performance video – the song does the talking. Breathing life into the old fashioned formula of dirty, fuzzy guitars and female vocals that aren’t compressed and auto-tuned the hell out of, Something’s Got To Give sticks its tongue down your throat and writhes around for three minutes and forty seconds of near distorted pleasure.
Deep Cut's album Disorientation is out on 5th September on Club AC30 Records and they play a headlining show at London’s The Wilmington Arms on 11th August.
To quote Jarvis Cocker, we’re currently ‘somewhere in a field in Hampshire,’ at The Good Weekend, a new independent festival. So this is a somewhat shortened Saturday Surf, rounding up some of the best new tracks that have appeared on line this week that we haven’t managed to dedicate a full blog post to.
Here are just three songs that we think your ears deserve.
Theme Park – Wax
Talking Heads. It was the obvious reference point that everyone jumped on when they first heard Milk by Theme Park and we were no different. However Wax, one of the two tracks that will feature on their debut single is utterly different. Released through ParadYse, (yes that capital Y in the middle is not a mistake) an imprint under Transgressive Records, Wax is a classy, very English sounding pop song with an infectiously mellow vibe and deliciously smooth vocals. It’s time to open the drawer marked Ones to Watch again.
Deepcut in Surrey is probably best known for its army barracks where four trainees died between 1995 and 2002, arousing significant media interest. Luckily Deep Cut the band has no association with the place, their affiliations being musical ones. We first mentioned them in a New Waves feature back in June and since then the group have played the BBC Introducing Stage at Glastonbury and are readying a single Something’s Got To Give for release. In the meantime this new track About Face has cropped up on line – a propulsive piece of old school indie for fans of bands such as The Joy Formidable, The Primitives and Lush.
Fresh from their Mercury Prize nomination, Metronomy get all shaken up by Clock Opera, a group that have become virtually Breaking More Waves residents since they first appeared here in July 2009. With an album from Clock Opera finally due to make its appearance later this year, we’re already wondering is there a chance of them appearing on the Mercury 2012 list?
Later this week 190,000 people will converge on a working farm in Somerset for the biggest music festival of them all – Glastonbury. You can read our preview / tips for the festival tomorrow. Whilst the masses will be enjoying giants such as U2 and Coldplay, Glastonbury also plays host to a huge number of lesser known artists, some of whom may be hoping for the festival to be a step on the career ladder to greater public awareness, whilst others perform with no major plan other than to play together. Deep Cut is one such band who adopt the latter approach. “This is all about being creative and making music that resonates with us and others, rather than chasing some elusive notion of fame. It’s about making music that we are proud of, rather than something that fits into a scene,” their songwriter and guitarist Mat Flint states.
Whilst we’re featuring Deep Cut as a new wave, they’ve actually been around for a number of years. The band formed in East London in 2006, following the break-up of Mat’s previous band Revolver. For a short while Revolver were NME and Melody Maker darlings, lumped in by the press with Slowdive and Chapterhouse to create some sort of shoegaze scene, but they never had any long term commercial success and were quickly dumped by the industry. It probably explains a lot about Mat’s comment about not chasing fame.
Deep Cut is very much a family affair; with Mat’s wife Emma on vocals and his brother Simon on bass. They have already released My Thoughts Light Fires, their debut album and have a follow up Disorientation ready to go in September. The band’s sound is a trashy yet classic mix of indie guitar with female vocal melodies all struck with an essence of harmonic psychedelic pop that references bands such as Sonic Youth, The Primitives, Husker Du, The Joy Formidable, Lush and The Byrds. If Creation Records were still a going concern we could imagine them fitting very neatly on their roster alongside Teenage Fanclub, Ride and The Boo Radleys. Whilst Deep Cut is never going to be fighting with U2 for top of the bill, their abrasive tunes slash their way through the air very sweetly indeed. If you're at Glastonbury why not make an early call to the BBC Introducing Stage and catch them on Friday at 12.45 ?
