With scattergun guitars and drums, tumbling over a vocal of imperious pop promise, Stricken City release their new single Lost Art on 17th November on Blue Flowers Records.
Stricken City are the stuff of indie dreams reborn. From their floppy fringed guitars and shoegazing reverb, to the death defying spontaneity and impulsive melody of front woman Rebekah Raa; theirs is an indie-pop of hitherto untapped gems. Drawing on influences from The Slits, Talking Heads, Young Marble Giants, and those lost sources of alternative melodica such as Life Without Buildings, The Sundays and Bow Wow Wow.
The band’s new wave, spiky jangling pop was premiered with the single Tak o Tak in July. Playlisted nationwide on XFM, a Record Of The Week on NME Radio, and picking up plays from 6Music and Huw Stephens on Radio 1, it followed a galvanising development on the London club scene, supporting the likes of Friendly Fires, Mystery Jets and Love Is All.
When Iain Pettifer (guitars) and Rebekah Raa (vocals/keys) first met in maths class they were wearing exactly the same clothes, reason enough to start a band. Coupled with a mutual appreciation of romantic guitar music, it would see Rebekah spend her entire student loan on a guitar and 8 track recorder; the pair holing themselves up for hours on end, making and breaking songs. Originally the plan was for Stricken City to consist of just two, until they soon decided something was missing, pulling in Kit Godfrey on drums and Mike Hyland on bass.