A celebration of their home city of Hull by the quick-witted, passionate indie post-punk band in a set of songs filled with humour, anguish and anger, but also a love letter to the area, and even all instruments played were locally bought. Standouts include punchy opener Friends Without Names, the intimate, croakily half-whispered and rather beautiful love song Duck Egg Blue, the dark but catchy The Drug, the fast, sharp-witted self-deprecatory Big Moon Lake (“Don’t swim at Big Moon Lake my friend /You will only get to deep / Just swim in your despair again the membership is cheap”, the thunderously punk Self Portrait (“You know I like to talk about myself - myself / Wrote an album about my pissing health - good health”) and Out Love Is Growing, which is like a Hull-style Joy Division / early Cure number. Dark, but at the same time thrumming, sharp and strangely joyful. See also their website. Out on The Liquid Label.
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