Walk Upright - Paint It White

There's a shiny vinyl EP coming out summer 2014!

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Paint It White

Walk Upright write timeless, tousled, pop music that touches on the ire of Mclusky, theHammond-organ hookiness of Attractions-era Costello, and Pavement’s sense of mischief, but maintains an emotional directness that’s unmistakably their own.

No Control is one man’s howl of frustration, an accidental riposte to hollow state-of-the-nation punk-rock posturing, played out over two-and-a-half-minutes of squally glam-soul. London burns on a television screen, effigies topple into the sea, and a man slumps on a sofa, rendered inert by his own demons, watching his frustrations bubble over.

No Control is available as a split 7" with long time friends Those Unfortunates "90 seconds of nonsense" - Arthur Lowe. The release will be marked with two shows on 20th February in Islington featuring both bands; an instore at Flashback Records followed by a more boisterous affair just round the corner at the Mucky Pup. Further details available here:

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Walk Upright - No Control

Walk Upright

I'll Tag Along With You

Rebecca's Friends

Very Very Last

Sanctioned

I'll Tag Along with You

Nirvana

Wasting My Time

Not the Way I Remember It

Don't Weep Melissa

Waiting for What

Walk Upright are a North London fourpiece who make timeless, tousled pop music.

Denis Osborne (vocals and guitar), Dee Mcgrudy (hammond organ and vocals), Richard Easeman (bass) and Ed Phillips (drums) have been kicking around Stoke Newington playing together, drinking together and knocking into shape an eclectic sound that touches on the ire of Mclusky, and the skewed sensibilities of Super Furry Animals or Pavement, but maintains a sense of mischief that’s very much their own.

‘We want to make something that’s not held back by the limitations so many bands seem to impose on themselves by saying “we want to sound like whoever,”' explains Osborne, speaking carefully in a soft Lancastrian burr. ‘It’s so easy to just pick a template off the peg, but we’d never be so cynical.'

Osborne is a soulboy who fell out of soul, he says, when he decided that 'it didn't hold any surprises anymore.' You get the sense that in another life he could’ve been a latter-day Kevin Rowland, drawing up new manifestos on the back of beermats, pushing his way to notoriety through sheer force of personality. And sure enough, you can hear echoes of Dexys in the ebullient yelps of their broadside at the tyranny of apathy, the self-produced Drown the Noise Out

The hooks tend to come thick, fast, and heavy with Theremin and feedback fuzz, but live standout Very Very Last shows that they’re equally capable of playing it relatively straight. Clocking in at three minutes dead, it’s a masterclass in Attractions-esque pop, with a lyric – written by Easeman – that skirts around those terrible moments in any relationship, where confrontation is on the cards, and spite is on your tongue. It's a feeling we can all recognise, and a tune that's hard to forget. 

Ben Brill
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