My Best Friend’s Going Out With A Girl I Like/Altair Voyager, by David Cronenberg's Wife (7" on Blang)

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Rating: ecstatic This record left our BRIAN D feeling ecstatic.

Even on first listen i'm totally digging this 7" by David Cronenberg's Wife. It's a cyclic, twangy piece of wax called 'My Best Friend's Going Out With A Girl I Like' which recalls The Flaming Stars, Bailter Space & maybe old London bands like Breed. There's a bit of a Velvets/Spacemen 3 feel to the atmospherics, the lyrics are a monotonous, geeky, drawled & wistful moan and utterly delightful in their excecution. The music just drills into your head like the best Quickspace tunes used to do, with that relentless repetitive drive, cool & loose, hypnotic & sinister....but going back to those lyrics....they're bleakly hilarious. I can't figure whether the protaganist is a total psychopath or just a lovelorn sweetie but Daniel Clowes could write a short comic strip for this addictive offering on Blang. A hearty treat of motorik surf-psych genius!

What the label says:

Second single from ascending underground music scenesters DCW. The band’s hallmark surf guitar and snare heavy drums combine with ingenious outbursts of electrical appliances to underpin A-side’s delirious tale of betrayal and revenge - a modern day teenage blues lament. Opposites attract and B-side complements with a tender story of a marriage ceremony gone wrong. Or is it? Google “Altair Voyager” and you find it’s the former name of Texaco’s mega oil tanker formerly known as Condoleezza Rice III. Fact! Previous single “I couldn’t Get Off” was heralded by Sounds XP as “remarkable, down-beat, dead-eyed, sleaze-pop” while Everett True at Plan B praised the band as “an authentic mid-80’s independent band - sarcastic, sardonic and articulate with dark gothic undertones”. Originally from Manchester, DCW capture the dark and moody spirit of late 70’s post-punk psychedelia. Rocket PR have recently taken DCW onto their roster and will spearhead a radio campaign. Upcoming Gig Dates : Mar 24th 2008:The Water Rats (Kings Cross) . April 24th The Monarch (Camden), May 16th 17th 2008: (UK Antifolk Festival), 12 Bar Club.

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