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Tonight's featured Filthy Little Angels is The Fountain - 'Basement EP' (Little 024)

Call it fate, call it coincidence, call it kismet but less than a week since Liverpool's The Fountains are followed on the Devil's blog by Manchesters The Fountain. courtesy of FLA. You don't think I just throw this blog together do you?

The 'Basement EP' is a lively statement of intent that bristles with controlled energy and barely repressed emotion. The moody mod of 'Crash Into The Powerlines' with it's disembodied Morrisseyesque vocals and stacatto stabs of guitar is the point at which The Jam meet the The Smiths. It's also the best track on the EP. '1920' with it's Tinny Beatlesesque opening blast of guitar and off kilter vocals and unsettling la la la's occupies a space vacated by Swell Maps and The Television Personalities many years ago. The other three tracks on the EP 'Give Me Back My Basement', 'Fat Tax' and 'In My Brain I Can Hide' are wacky 80's indie by numbers with the choppy guitars and semi sardonic vocals that were once de rigeur but fell out of fashion about 25 years ago.

The Fountain's 'Basement EP' won't be to everyones taste but for a disciple of Peel it's a breath of fresh air in a frequently stale and stylised music scene.

Go Try

MP3 - The Fountain - Crash Into The Powerline

Go Visit

The Fountain - Myspace

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The Fountain
Fat Tax