Skint & Demoralised are the newest Indie lads on the block and their brilliant debut single The Thrill Of Thirty Seconds, released on November 17 throws them onto the scene with a bang.
The old-skool football artwork is pretty fitting for this song which sounds like it might have been listened to by your parents back when people looked like they do on the cover of this record - like real sportsmen and not David Beckham-esque models.
As the first single from their debut album, Love And Other Catastrophes, The Thrill Of Thirty Seconds is a catchy little song filled with guitar hooks and thigh slapping vocals.
Made up of 19 year-old Matt Abott and a rather illusive bloke we refer to only as Mini Dog, Skint And Demoralised produce alarmingly happy -go -lucky music despite their rather depressive band name.
Any fans of Hollyoaks might actually think that the vocals are coming from Fletch (the druggie one) who seems to have disappeared from Channel Four of late… however, he’s from Wigan NOT Wakefield… ah well.
Like many bands these days, Matt and his ‘dog’ initially found fame via the wonderful MySpace (for you oldies out there; that’s the new HMV) before being taken under Mercury Music’s wing and ushered into a NYC studio to work alongside the legendary The Dap Kings.
For a band from my neck of the woods it’s great to see them having such great commercial success after Wakefield is so often shadowed by Leeds’ Kaiser Chiefs and Sheffield’s Arctic Monkey’s… if this first single is anything to go by though, Yorkshire could be onto something big for 2009.
Rating: 4/5 - A very good first single.
FemaleFirst - Ruth Harrison