The latest in a series of split singles from Sorted records, ‘So Easy’ and ‘Subway Sex’ are two neat slices of punky guitar anthems.
Circa 1983 – Kyle Hill (vocals) Sam Walker (bass and vocals) and Ash Sommerton (drums) – have spent the last year establishing themselves on the Midlands’ live circuit, and their track ‘So Easy’ sounds like it could be a favourite at gigs with its spiky guitars and a sneer of a vocal, joined in the chorus by a female singer who would rather die than affect an American accent. It’s like New Wave the first time round, and you kind of want to film a chase scene to it.
Mogul are a girl-boy duo from Birmingham. Their track can’t be too much more than a couple of minutes long, coming on like a Blondie B side with Mick Jones on vocals, it has its own little swagger – an art student’s idea of Tough – and although they’d probably hate me for saying it, it’s pretty cool.
Two great tracks for the Strokes to steal.