Artist: :Kinema:
  Title: Circles EP
  Label: Hot Pockets
  Cat #: HP003
  Release Date: Feb 2010

  With the ongoing broo-ha ha over the campaign to prise Simon Cowell's vice like grip off the Christmas number 1 spot, it's all too easy to create a ridiculous dichotomy where POP=BAD and TEENAGE TANTRUMS, sorry ROCK MUSIC=GOOD. Here at Hot Pockets we have no truck with such orthodoxy, as old armpit britches himself points out the Christmas charts were hardly a bastion of great music before his parade of karaoke singers appeared on the scene.

  No, what we need is quite simply better pop music, made with all the passion and spirit of your finest indie troubadour but filtered through the prism of a 3 minute teenage symphony. Listen back to the likes of Roxy Music or Pet Shop Boys and you have music that is as equally up to the task of inspiring as it is of soundtracking a quick fumble on the dancefloor, that is the beauty of great pop music.

  Enter stage left Brighton's :Kinema:, who having blown our white socks off with their amazing keytar boosted live show make their recorded debut with the Circles EP out on Hot Pockets in February. Blue eyed soul for the 21st Century, :Kinema: sound like the bastard child of Michael McDonald and Hot Chip (indeed former Hot Chip drummer Grovesnor features on remix duties), blessed with a vision of pop so pure as to be potentially blinding.

  Having already worked up a blogging frenzy with their inspired autotuned take on Animal Collective's My Girls, this EP shows off the boys own talent for crafting an exquisite pop moment. Released on limited edition 2 track 7" vinyl and as a 4 track digital EP, Circles heralds a bright new dawn for pop music in the decade no one's quite sure what to call yet...

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