Parka - Attack Of The Hundred Yard Madman

Jeepster

The ancient art of melding guitar to dance beat is a distinguished one. The heady days of Madchester taught rockers how to rave and vice versa, and Parka are merely the most recent pilgrims to the same musical Mecca. These Scots can thank Alex Zane for much of their fanbase, the XFM fop having given ‘Disco Dancer’ – which merrily channels Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Michael’ with a little less style – Single of the Week status. The jewel here seems to be ‘DJ In The Corner’, which sees Nineties flame-haired indie-dance gulderer Saffron from Republica revisit her stock-in-trade. Attack Of The Hundred Yard Madman is deceptively difficult to listen to, because no matter how much your feet want to do their stuff, there is the mouldy whiff of yesteryear around the whole damn thing. Kirstie McCrum

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DOWNLOAD: ‘DISCO DANCER’, ‘DJ IN THE CORNER’.
FOR FANS OF: REVEREND AND THE MAKERS, SONS AND DAUGHTERS, THE TWANG.

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