Towns – Get By
Alejandro De Luna
Review originally published for Gigslutz – 27/04/2014
This month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Oasis´ debut single; an essential track in the aftermath of Cobain´s suicide and the decline of grunge, it marked – along with the likes of Blur, Suede, The Verve or Pulp – the return of British music to a massive worldwide audience. A comeback in a socio-cultural movement called Brit Pop. The celebration of cool Britannia in a movement – tired of beats – that absorbed ’60s guitar pop music, The Smiths´ melancholia, and The Stone Roses´ pop-like psychedelia, blended with vestiges of glam and shoegazing´s cacophony.
Here we have the sons and heirs of those legendary years that uplift the six stings over synthesizers and electronic textures. They call themselves Towns, they come from Bristol – the land of trip–hop– and they are mad about pop music but hidden in unreachable walls of noise…
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