What to make to The Tuesday Club? They certainly look an odd bunch, and nothing if not whacky. But image counts for nothing if your music sucks. In fact, looking deliberately oddball can drastically backfire, leaving a band open to accusations of putting more work into their look than their sound, or, worse still, compensating a lack of talent by desperately trying to look ‘interesting’.
Not so this The Tuesday Club: ‘New Glamour’ is a sharp little ditty that’s punk, that’s pop, that’s glam, that’s shiny and theatrical. Imagine if The Fall collaborated with Sparks to produce a track that was savvy, catchy and left-field. It would probably sound like this. With lyrics that mash up salami and Walter Mitty, manta rays and Conway Twitty, it’s a clever work of quirky, trashy new-wave pop with spiky guitars and offbeat lyrics: flipside ‘Old Before Your Time’ namechecks Charles Hawtrey and comes on like the B52s whipping up an exuberant Britpop-edged glam racket. Sounds crazy? That’s because it is, and it’s all the better for it.
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