Assembly Now

Oh look, it’s another indie band from London made up of skinny kids with scruffy hair. It’s around this point that I’d usually start betting just how much they sound like The Libertines or whatever other flavour of the week band is in style this week. know better than to just do what everyone else is doing though. Instead they take the parts that seem to be fundamental to the current music scene and then do the opposite.

Scrappy guitar playing? Distortion all over the melodies. Deliberately fuzzy vocals about nothing. You will find of these things in the music of Assembly Now. The guitars are clean and crisp, every nuance can be clearly heard, and the vocals are both clear and literate. Of course none of these things are new concepts, but they certainly seem to be things that are out of favour at the moment. This makes Assembly Now all the more refreshing.

Both of these songs made up the band’s first single back in August, a limited edition double a-side single, which I’m assuming is sold out now as the band have made both songs available for free. Both of great slices of indie rock, as well as a hint as to the direction the mainstream British scene will be heading in.

MP3 Assembly Now – It’s Magnetic
MP3 Assembly Now – Out on 24s

While we’re at it, here’s an excellent remix of ‘It’s Magnetic’ by Luke Smith, vocalist and guitarist of the now defunct Clor:

MP3 Assembly Now – It’s Magnetic (Luke Smith/Clor Remix)

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