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 There are few things that unite the NME office, bar mild alcoholism,
social retardation or the threat of imminent nuclear holocaust. So when
we heard The Drums
and realised that we all thought they were brilliant, we were
suspicious. Surely some trick? This perfect band must be a kind of
Trojan horse, a trap to get us all into one venue and then gas us like
the vermin we are.
Read more on the jump
Probe as we might, though, we can’t see any rotten molars on this
fine-fetlocked gift pony. From the innocent/knowing euphoria of the
early-Cure-gone-west-coast sunshine pop of ‘Let’s Go Surfing’ via the
Jonathan Richman-ish naivety of ‘The Saddest Summer’ to the
synth-soaked, John Hughes-soundtrack new romantic crush-angst of ‘I
Felt Stupid’, it’s so flawless you almost feel embarrassed for everyone
else. And they only formed less than a year ago!
‘Down By The Water’ deftly seduces the moodiness of Black Lips and the ghostly doo-wop of Grizzly Bear
into a delicious bad-boy and prom-queen tryst down under the boardwalk.
‘Don’t Be A Jerk Johnny’’s sweet gender-battle (“You used to be so
pretty/But now you’re just tragic”) is like a less try-hard, less dull Vampire Weekend,
while ‘The Saddest Summer’ is the best misleadingly titled evocation of
randy summer fun we’ve heard since Eddie Cochran’s ‘Summertime Blues’.
The Bunnymen-gone-new romantic ‘Submarine’ finds a shadow in the
sunshine like a plastic-wrapped body on the shoreline and ‘Make You
Mine’, for all its sassy rhythms, whistling and falsetto
call-and-response is more than just a stylish exercise in ’50s
rock’n’roll stylings – when Jonathan Pierce sighs
“I don’t know what to do when/I see you holding someone else’s hand/And
I don’t know what to say/Cos when I open my mouth I always sound so
stupid”, it’s a god-only-knows-how-sweet evocation of teenage
melancholy. This EP couldn’t be any more giddy with promise. Let’s just
hope these cads don’t leave us with summer dreams, ripped at the seams…
Emily Mackay
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