For some reason I’m fascinated by these guys. I’m not sure what it is. I don’t like the music all that much. I don’t hate it either. The chorus for Hold On is catchy, but not enough to be annoying and not interesting enough to deserve any kind of admiration.
It’s something about the combination of the super synth constructions they build, their relentless affection for the beat, and then just the way they look and the persona they seem to project, the big glasses, the bearish guy, the certain nasality of it all. Maybe it’s their commitment to sounds and styles that i wouldn’t touch with a 10,000 feet pole and their actually making an interesting creation out of it all. But more likely it’s the disco nerd I repressed several decades ago looking at me from behind those 80s glasses and playing what could’ve been…
Here’s Hold On live on Later with Jools Holland. The seriousness with which they take a kind of Night at the Roxbury head/shoulder bop is truly fascinating to me.
And they rock the bongos!
Now, here are three of them on the radio, playing the same song with only two guitars and a little keyboard and playing the song at half speed.
I’m only going to heaven if it feels like hell
I’m only going to heaven if it tastes like caramel…
Justin, I’d like to request you do a cover of this song for your bad covers page…
I’m afraid this song may be beyond my level of competence.