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The Ketamines - A Rotten Bond/1 Yr (from Oddbox Singles Club Pt 2)

Cardinal - Hymns (album)

Proper Ornaments - Taking the Gamble Out of Buying 12”

Darren Hayman - January Songs (album)

Various: Marshall Teller EP 12”

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Single/Download Review

Male Bonding/ Cold Pumas and Male Bonding/ Eat Skull
split singles Faux Discx 7” and Tough Love Records 7”

Article written by Ged M - Nov 9, 2009

Male Bonding are the Dalston three piece who have just signed to Seattle’s SubPop Records: most appropriate as their lo-fi grunge-pop sounds very American. ‘Stare At My Problems’ (Faux Discx) is staccato and sparse at first and then bursts into fearsome rhythms as if their dentist had just drilled into a nerve. Their Tough Love track ‘Year’s Not Long’ is thrashy punk, with the melody buried deep within the mix. If it had the patience, it would sit nicely next to No Age and Times New Viking. Eat Skull from Portland, Oregon, on the Tough Love single, are Americans who sound English; ‘Heaven’s Stranger’ could be melodic lo-fi English indiepop, very catchy but with an intentionally muddy sound. Different again, Brighton's Cold Pumas are strange co-habitees of the Faux Discx release: ‘Altered Yeast’ is clanging, urgent sounding Krautrock with vocals that sound like ritual chanting. Both singles, all three bands, are prime examples of a more interesting and involving indiepop these days.

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/malebonding
http://www.myspace.com/eatskull
http://www.myspace.com/coldpumas