Boy-Girl vocals cast from fore to aft, rallies of skiffling beat, a delicate turn and rousing chorus; the ebullient delights of Slow Club. With a brace of acclaimed singles under their belts and an eagerly anticipated album on the way, Slow Club release 'Let’s Fall Back In Love' on 1st September.
For those familiar with the Sheffield duo the startling depth and colour of this EP will come as no surprise, for the rest here lies a treat. The sing-along stomp 'Let’s Fall Back In Love' the galloping clarion call 'Come on Youth' and the epic ‘arena-anti-folk’ of 'Summer Shakedown' arrive as three widescreen vistas, punctuated by Charles’ country fried 'Dance To The Morning Light', and Rebecca’s ode to hanging on 'Trick Question', two dexterous soliloquies of admission and humour.
Live as on record, Charles and Rebecca enrapture audiences with the same involuntary joy and simplistic rush that they themselves imbue. Charles with bruised vocal, a rasping guitar and disarming lightness of touch, casts unlikely wit against Rebecca’s angelic vocal and cheeky turn of phrase, amid her wild array of percussive apparatus including wooden chairs, glass bottles, and spoons.
These two are more than charming anti-folk troubadours or the lo-fi acoustic end of the Sheffield scene; they are the real thing. That spontaneous intangible ‘thing’ that comes jumping of records and crackling off the stage, hanging crystalline for fleeting moments to confound and intrigue.