You Talk All Night- Digital Single - My Sad Captains

Now, it’s fair to say that over the past few years I haven’t had a lot of time for the music that has come out of the United Kingdom. I could probably only name ten, maybe twenty bands out of hundreds that I truly love and would fight my corner for. My Sad Captains are one of those bands. I knew when I first heard them 12 or so months ago that they had something special. For a start, they sound a bit like American Analog Set (another amazingly under-rated band) but filtered through a typically English sense of melancholia. They know how to write a good, solid pop song – but they don’t shove it in your face with OTT production methods and *punchy* choruses. The songs just glide softly, hang around for a bit making you all wistful then ping(!) – vanish. It’s only a few hours later that you find yourself singing random melodies and lyrics. The mark of a great pop song is surely waking up in the middle of the night with it lodged in your head for no apparent reason, right? -The Line Of Best Fit

London's My Sad Captains absolutely, irrefutably prove that not all the loyal, indie-rock boyfriends died when they went to university/college. I remember when I used to be able to talk all night and not wake up with a sore head. I remember when I was more scared of girls than they were of me. Listening to "You Talk All Night" makes me feel sick and ashamed of myself, but in a good way - as if from this point on all things will be pure, an example that life can be as innocent as it used to be. This fragile slither of hope appears on the band's debut album, Here and Elsewhere, out now through Stolen Recordings. Kev Kharas- RCRDLBL