We love bands with a good sense of humour. We also love bands that have a good pop sensibility. So when you can find a band that combines the two, we are very very happy.That's the case with Mascot Fight.
A four-piece out of the UK, the band has already made appearances on The Beeb on the taste-making Steve Lamacq show. I'm sure we'll be getting a taste of them this side of the pond soon.
Mascot Fight's latest album, Pantomime Hearse (ahh, I can't resist a good pun), is a collection of eleven short but sweet ditties. Light and fun, these tracks combine the slack aspects of Pavement with the uniquely UK tongue-in-cheek sense of humour of bands like The Wombats and Los Campesinos! and polish them all up nice and shiny like.
You can tell from the song titles alone that the band likes to have fun. Of course tracks entitled "Play the Meathead Anthem" and "That's a Photocopier (Not a Chair)" are going to be entertaining.
Not every song is a winner. "Diego Barnes" for example seems to merely exist.
But at the end of the day, I don't think it will be long before your favorite college radio station will be spinning Mascot Fight.
Best tracks: "That's a Photocopier (Not a Chair)" "Thinking In French"
Track listing for Pantomime Hearse:
- Terry Is the Chicago Sun
- Danger Man
- Play the Meathead Anthem
- That's a Photocopier (Not a Chair)
- City Bones
- Thinking In French
- Dalian Shied Away
- Interval
- Diego Barnes
- Our Skool Daze
- Fifty Kwacha
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