Dance Like A Maniac - Single Review

Totally wired. From the word go with its frenetic scatter attack in your face full frontal assault charge this freak show baby just refuses to relent. The second release from this Lancaster based three piece following their acclaimed 'Feminine Side' outing which - bugger - we missed. 'dance like a maniac' is quite frankly the most off the wall and devilishly delicious thing to have had us bouncing off the walls while near destroying our poor hapless hi-fi since the Victorian Gentlemens English Club's debut release wrestled its way through our mail box and held siege to our listening space. Fast, furious, demented and happily bonkers, 'dance like a maniac' is as the title suggests a fried and unhinged invitation to go mental - teetering precariously on a finite knife edge between chaos and collapse this festering slice of unstoppable unruly pop carnage is just what the doctor ordered. Obtuse, angular, acerbic and anarchic, this boy / girl delivered primal paint bomb stutters with playful menace coercing dislocated hip swerving savvy with a deliciously twisted candy pop underpin that'll floor you just for its brazen audacity. Flip over for the slightly more toned down yet equally frenetic 'split' which if I didn't know better I'd say was B-52's recalibrated with a rampant post punk / art pop mindset relearning how to play from scratch and using the Pixies 'Surfer Rosa' as a template from to crank out spitefully twisted fractured morsels of acute anti-pop. Frankly kids this lot wipe the floor with most of the talent-lsss tat that seem to hog the column inches of the music rags. Expect a whole full lengths worth of twisted treasures in the shape of 'melomania' early next year.