On The Level

Levelload
Genre: New Wave / Japanese Classic Music / Rock
From: Japan and London

Tokyo/London duo Mariko Doi and Tony Wade collided like a fault line between time zones one night under Tokyo's neon sky, binding over a mutual love of Blondie, Gang of Four and Link Wray.

Already big in Japan (no longer the mocking badge given to bands that fail to shift units in the US and/or the UK) the duo's sneering post-punk scuzz-pop has racked up admirers including the late John Peel, Dirty Sanchez (second single 'HND in RNR' earning them a feature on Dirty Sanchez the Movie)
and Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon and Roger Taylor.

Their latest single 'I've Been Thinking', scheduled for release in the UK at the end of May on Flightpath Records, is an adrenaline shot of prickly spikiness that's the musical form of the cactus. It's like they've been in a time capsule for the last 30 years occasionally force fed Bis's 'Kandy Pop' and snippets from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and two of the Devil's favourite underground acts Miss Violetta Beauregarde and The Bohays.

It's punchy, it's visceral and it'll make you check your iPod hasn't blown a fuse (do iPod's have a fuse?) what more can you want from a single?

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MP3 - Levelload - Hnd in RNR
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