Getting their quirk on Manchester-based Ishango Bone have come up with a sound that is somehow gloriously original and highly addictive. Arriving in a blur of wild hair and moustaches and looking like three George Harrisons from his mid-seventies follicle overload, but sounding very much of the now, their polythymic shuffles combine a shape-shifting rhythm section with great soaring melodies that switch and twitch from indie attitude to a melting falsetto.
In an overcrowded space, the band have found something truly original and quite startling and yet also oddly commercial or commercially odd – think of Blur’s trips into the off-kilter or Radiohead with a sense of humour or any indie band that still puts the art into art rock.
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