Favours for Sailors unleash unwieldy song titles
Favours for Sailors are a band that I’ve liked from afar from sometime. I’ve always heard their songs through other bands they know, or as support to another band live. Their song Erode My Empire is one that I’ve known on and off for three years now, and it’s still doing the rounds. In other bands this could be a sign of a worrying lack of creativity, but it seems Favours for Sailors are going to keep pushing it for as long as it sounds fresh. And if these radio session tracks are any indication, it still has breakout indie hit written all over it.
Until you listen to I Dreamt That You Dreamt That You Loved Me In Your Dreams. Then you start to think that everything else has just been a practice run. I Dreamt.. is fast, furious, fun, and completing the alliteration, fucking awesome. In one song, the band manage to shrug off the lazy Pavement comparisons and prove they can put out something completely different, and certainly better. This is a song that you can hear crossing over to mainstream radio. The song that breaks a band. The song that becomes an anthem.
Whether it will actually do any of those things, I have no idea. But if there is any justice left in this world, then it really should.
MP3 Favours for Sailors – I Dreamt That You Dreamt That You Loved Me In Your Dreams (radio session)
Furious Sons is out now on Tough Love Records.
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