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15 September 2023

Band: SLIGHTEST CLUE
Who: Vancouver-based four-piece that brings distinct influences and experiences: a stage actor whose playlists go from Talking Heads to Sonic Youth to Björk, a hook-obsessed recovering choir girl, an electrical engineer whose personal idol is John Bonham, and a guitarist who played for (and left) ten other bands before deciding this was the one for him. It’s like the secret after-school project of four kids who would have passed each other without a glance in the hallway at school – but once they’re plugged in and ready to play their distinct blend of post-punk, alternative rock, and dark pop, all bets are off. It wasn’t supposed to work, but it does, and they don’t have the slightest clue how or why.

New single: SLIGHTEST CLUE
A song that grapples with the fear of losing someone.

TUTV: Expect a bass-guitar-riff-manic and knife-edged mid-tempo garage cutter that sounds as if it was recorded in one take. Raw, rough and rowdy. When mixed emotions in a relationship are for real, why start to dub them over and over and add some special effects when you’re writing a song about and go into a studio to record it. And that’s the pitfall these young Canadians avoided here to my ears. I’m quite sure they have all early The Strokes records in their collection. Great, right? Absolutely. I’ll give you one clue: these Vancouver misfits will be back, sooner than you think.

Tune in.

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