The latest batch of Fresh Tracks includes the new single from London’s hot new garage rock DIY band, Tangerines, plus recent and new tracks from the following artists and bands selected for this latest installment of Fresh Tracks:
Tangerines – London, England
Connor Roff – Ontario, Canada
The Bourgeois – Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tom Shaner – Brooklyn, New York
Jamie Borrowdale – London, England
My Silent Bravery – Boston, Massachusetts
Justin Sosa – Los Angeles, California
The Euphony Machine – Vineland, New Jersey
Justin DiFebbo – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
https://soundcloud.com/pete-heywoode/tangerines-you-look-like-something-i-killed
Tangerines – “You Look Like Something I Killed”
London-based Tangerines are an electrifying indie psychobilly quartet with chugging guitars, rolling bass lines and thunderous drumming similar to Black Lips and the late 70’s Talking Heads era – all fronted by the tangible vigor and verve of vocalist Gareth Hoskins’ signature snarl, on the band’s debut single, “You Look Like Something I Killed.”
“The feel of the song is set within those fine lines of despair and self satisfaction, thrusting our evil ways to the very limit and questioning how far can a man really be pushed before he blurts out all of his desires,” Hoskins told NME.
Tangerines sound much like an American garage rockabilly band from 1950s suburbia (where the neighbors are calling parents, rather than cops), but in the modern age. If that makes sense.
And it appears that it is no accident, as DIY pointed out: “[Tangerines] relish in a bonkers, bruising Americana. Where other groups with similar influences might lay back in wooziness and relish in the lazy-day sunshine, though, Tangerines descend into madness…” on “You Look Like Something I Killed” a “sun-stroke addled slice of batshit brilliance.”
All of that is true, and so are various other adjectives for a band that has such a forceful and commanding presence on audio and video, we can certainly understand why their shows are popular. As a matter of fact, the band is selling out shows across London and the surrounding burbs and cities. Hopefully, it’s only a matter of time that they land in NYC and do some touring in the U.S.