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The Boy I Used To Be, by Bombay Bicycle Club (10" on Nettwerk)

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Format: 10"
Label: Nettwerk
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Rating: angry This record left our BRIAN D feeling angry.

Righto. Since when did Good Shoes & Devendra Banhart make good bedfellows? That's what Bombay Bicycle Club make my head calculate. A distressing equation indeed. The singer's got one of those weird bleating voices like that gimp from JJ72 (remember them?) and the music goes from wibbling stadium indie to rattly chiming terrace anthem in a jot. Sorry to mention Good Shoes in the same breath, they're actually fairly decent! Investigating further into 'The Boy I Used To Be' and it's limited edition 10" grooves and i'm confronted with highly uninspiring, plodding indie with the most obvious guitar licks & dull drumming. Where do all these identikit bands spring from? Do we really need to plough through all this to get to the quality stuff every fucking week?

What the label says:

TRACKLISTING
Side A    01. The Hill        
02. Sixteen        
Side B    03. Open House        
04. Cancel On Me        
Bombay Bicycle Club are a prodigiously talented quartet from North London. One of the most exciting new bands in the country, they won the ‘Road To V’ competition in 2006 and a coveted slot at that year’s V Festival, and in 2007 played sets to packed tents at the Reading and Leeds Festivals, earning themselves a ’10 To Watch Out For’ listing in NME as one of the highlights of the event. They also played a sold out national tour in the autumn of 2007 to promote their second release, the How We Are EP, which also made a debut at no. 2 on the Indie Singles Chart in October 2007.       
What is particularly remarkable for a group so young is the depth of singer Jack Steadman’s lyrics and the ambition and innovation displayed in their songwriting and musicianship, which has been compared to early Talking Heads, Sonic Youth and Television.

THE BOY I USED TO BE  EP
This is a limited edition reissue (500 copies, on 10” vinyl only) of the group’s acclaimed debut EP release from the spring of 2007.
“Music so precociously intelligent and artful that it seems to have been beamed down from another planet”  NME
“Impossibly young and impossibly talented”  THE FLY

 

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About the humble 10":

The 10" sits somewhere in between the 7" and 10" (kind of like a wierd cousin). This awkward variant exists for no other reason aside from to be different from it's other family members. It can provide less music than a 12" but more than a 7". It's almost like a budget 12" or a posh 7". Either way it's wierd and it needs sorting out. Maybe it's quirkyness has helped it carry on defying all rules and convention? Importantly though it plays at a multitude of speeds so it is still quintessentially a total bargain (albeit a total freak of a bargain).

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