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Snippet of their music here
Snippet of their music here
The Sly are truly wonderful.
A fantastically youthful band from Manchester/Oldham who have somehow managed to find a space of their own in the overcrowded field of indie. The description of them as ‘a baggy Krautrock 3 piece and Oldham’s hottest new band’ doesn’t even start to pinpoint their sound.
With an imagination and firebrand intensity, they have mangled indie into post-punk shapes with songs that go in zigzag directions you don’t expect. This inventiveness means that there are zero reference points – they could be Arctic Monkeys if Alex Turner’s gang had a prog side to them, their songs switch parts and yet are funk groove danceable, the vocals sound like Tom Verlaine in his Television pomp and the guitars have that kind of chiming inventiveness yet they have their own thing, they could be the Fire Engines but they probably don’t know who they are.
They could be anyone but the genius is that they are themselves and this startlingly original but wonderfully alive music is from a band led by their singing drummer, Levon Gill the son of the late and great Inspiral Carpets drummer, Craig Gill and they sound nothing like that band either.
They will be on your radar soon – they are too good to fade away.
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