It's been a good year for guitar jangle. We've had Allo Darling, Evans the Death and now another little identikit indie-schmindie band bursting with pop sensibilities.
Newcastle's PALE MAN MADE are another C86 inspired band that make use of cheerily chiming guitars, the occasional bit o' fuzz and sweet vocals. They're a mixture of Pastels, Teenage Fanclub with a little Dinosaur Jr. tossed in too. Its proper indie like they use to make back in the good ol' days when guitar bands were true underachievers and hopeful that they might scrape the Top 40 ("And a new entry, in a No. 27...")
This all sounds rather disparaging, it's not meant to. But to suggest there's anything new or original about Pale Man Made would be a fib. They reference all those 80s and early 90s bands so accurately you'll think you were listening to an album that's over 20 years old.
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