A stylish London five-piece led by a rakish, Bowie/Jarvis-type pop conceptualist
Who are they?
A stylish London five-piece, named after the legendary producer, whose excitable publicity material describes their music as "particularly English powerpop, somewhere between Roxy Music and the Strokes, the Killers and Kanye West, Pulp, R&B and Frank Sinatra". It's surprising they haven't got Mongolian nose-flute music and the voice of God in there, too. Their debut single, Never Fade Away, starts with the chorus and somehow gets bigger.
Not your fey, cardigan-wearing shrinking violets, then?
Not exactly. Frontman Fred Macpherson has declared: "I want our greatest hits album to be a double disc." Still only 23, he was in "legendarily rowdy upstarts" Les Incompetents and "legendarily doomy experimentalists" Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man. In plain English, this means he was in a couple of trendy bands that didn't make much impact outside London's more fashionable districts.
So what changed?
He licked his wounds, started writing songs on a "crappy" Casio keyboard, conceived a big name for a big, hooky, passionate sound, and added a band to achieve it. Macpherson is a rakish, Bowie/Jarvis-type pop conceptualist, and whether he achieves his ambitions or not, pop with him around is unlikely to be dull.
Where can I hear them?
Never Fade Away is released on 20 June by LuvLuvLuv. You can hear it at spectorband.com
Dave Simpson
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/02/first-sight-spector
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