EP Review : This Many Boyfriends – Getting A Life With
In my day a record with seven tracks used to be called an album, but in this ever changing world in which we live seven tracks just doesn’t cut it, so an EP it is!
Kicking off with the brilliant ‘I Don’t Like You (Cos You Don’t Like The Pastels)’ with it’s clever/snobby indie band references, the first thing that crosses my mind is these guys would be useful in my pub quiz team. The second thing I think of is Half Man Half Biscuit and their tongue in cheek lyrics. This Many Boyfriends have clearly spent a lot of time listening to mid-eighties indie, ‘I Should Be A Communist’ is heavily influenced by the jangly guitars of the Smiths while the intro to ‘Three Year Itch’ is a deadringer for JAMC’s ‘Just Like Honey’. Elsewhere on ‘Getting A Life With’ there’s bits of Orange Juice, The Wedding Present and Aztec Camera. That’s not to say that borrowing from indie-past is a bad thing, mid eighties indie was generally good and this joint release by Melodic and Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation serves as a wonderful homage to those days gone by whilst still being relevant today. Buy it. Now!
4/5
Out now on Melodic/Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation
