Formerly The Wife Guys Of Reddit and forced to change their name by a cease and desist, welcome to Glasgow's The Foot & Leg Clinic. What a debut album this is. If you want to know what Indie means, it is potentially this.
The album offers up whatever you need. Angular, yet Indie Pop. Want some Garage Rock? How about a little Psych. Female or Male Vocal? Indie Pop, no problem! Noisy or Gentle. It really is a bonkers album, yet totally sane. At its heart, it is Pop, but very unordinary Pop.
Intelligence and Innovation oozes out it, but if you want something straight ahead, OK. There is a fascination with Worms and what is wrong with that. The female vocals are a little Indie Pop, the male more Rocky, but the parts together are equally amazing.
Where Did All The Fruit Go? even ventures into Power Pop with a slight touch of UK Glam Rock. The Mariposal Antedote is folky Psych Pop. Simon Kitchen's Drystone Miracle is instrumentally amazing and driven by a really funky bassline.
Songs are built on killer riffs that grip you completely. There's even a hypnotic one on the delicate...Halycon which morphs into and incredible Guitar wig out. The angular The Early Bird is splendid Indie and maybe the best thing here.
Worms 2 is utterly bizarre, yet completely engaging, both lyrically and instrumentally. Indeed, the whole album is. Sit Down For Rock A Roll risks being one of those albums raves about and nobody buys. This is an outlier in the annals of Scots Pop, don't let it be that.
You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on Vinyl or as a download.
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