Arndales

Arndales

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In The Red

Arndales hail from the Three Counties (Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire) area of England, a hinterland bolted on to North London. Members of the band have also performed with Country Teasers, Art Brut, Collapsed Lung, Thrilled Skinny and others. They describe their music as “Three Counties Ug-Rock.” On their new album they have taken inspiration from the rich world of retail jargon. The main source of lyrical inspiration was a shared Google Doc where friends could deposit the latest nuggets of retail gobbledygook they’d heard at work. Opening track “Prestige Pricing” is named after the practice of deliberately inflating the price of a product to indicate it’s prestigious status. “Dark Store” takes its name from the customer-free supermarkets used to fulfill online shopping orders. Album closer “Theme from A Big 10-8 Place” is a cover of the Negativland song, transferring the narrative from the Bay Area to mid Bedfordshire, England.

Arndales

Regional Treasure / Padded Posts

In The Red

***The UK's Arndales are back with two more songs of angular, menacing pummel from men who you wouldn't suspect actually do hate noise. Edition of 500.

Arndales

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In The Red

ARNDALES consist of four men whose ages range from 42 to 51. Notable bands / artists with which they have been / are involved: Country Teasers, Thrilled Skinny, Badgewearer, Gag, Montana Pete, Pregnant Neck, Collapsed Lung, Zuno Men and Jad Fair. They’re menacing, menacingly good, regional treasures, stalker, very dangerous stretches of road, and I hate noise and scandalous handmade postcards. This is good, black crosses for eyes. Frantic, frenetic, edgy, disturbing, scratchy low-end menacing new wave. The whole presentation is something to be desired. John Peel would have played this lots, I guess we still miss him, when will they replace him? This band should be on your list, these songs should be on the list, that line should be on your list. Time to kill in your office? Listen to this.  Angular but not in that obvious way, solid, national statues more Fall than Franz. They’re from the Three Counties, where ever that is, somewhere in Southern England, sounds more like a regional bus company. I’m out of milk again, and famous things in history. Great songs, menacing songs, new wave with excellent benefits and reading books, shared common interests, ancient Greeks, iced tea. Definitely not Ice-T. Plunged in to lots of things, they do a lot of things, they hope that bothers you. Arndales have things to say—pop that’s wrong, Wrong Pop. Before we ask the question and ask of self-sustained adventure (like John Wark in Escape to Victory). Not a bad song on here, just answers...