Les Cox
(sportifs)
'Total Straightness'
Strictly limited 7" EP
out now on Clunk Click Records
Les Cox
(sportifs) have created a new three track
offering that is head and shoulders above your usual 'indie'
dandruff. Recorded on
2inch tape at Richard Formby's (Wild
Beasts, Spectrum, Cud et al)
analogue museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire; Clunk
Click Records
are proud to
present Total Straightness.
EP
opener and live favorite The Hand the
Heed is a mouthful of lithe teenage memories
plucked from a Gregory's Girl-esque
Gretna Green and set against a rumbling, pulsing rocker that soars,
twists and turns with every heart beat, Guitar chop and thud of the
Drum.
Meanwhile
over on
Side B , the
remainder of Total Straightness shares
a funky nuance that moves LCS ass-wards from their more usual rock
and roll rhythms, with Bass and Organ lines tighter than Federer's
grip on the throat of international tennis. Wrong
Side recalls Bas Jan Ader and a misspent
youth, while EP closer It Gave Back
charts the hundred millionth course across the painful nostalgic
heart.
Les Cox
(sportifs) make intelligent, poly directional rock and roll punk
songs with a minimum of means (time, money, instruments). "We party
to distract from the pointlessness of life, and to remind ourselves
of the optimism of living. Viva autonomia!"
Total Straightness is available now from the following local outlets: Alt.Vinyl, RPM, Beatdown Records & Hot Rats.
To buy online, send payment via paypal to -
clunkie@vinyljunkie.freeserve.co.uk
Cost for UK buyers incl p+p = 4.00 GBP
Rest of the world = 6.00 GBP
Total Straightness is also available from Norman Records
http://www.normanrecords.com/
Reviews and responses
'Sometimes a record drops through our letterbox that is so perfect we
can’t stop blabbing about it. Taken from their new EP, ‘Total
Straightness’, ‘The Hand…’ is a mind-melting combo of everything
amazing and awful about the ’80s in one razor-sharp scramble for
attention. The guitar strings sound like rusty barbed wire, the
bassline makes your stomach tremble and the weird kid lyrics are
delivered with the sort of Scottish croon that melts hearts. The
coolest escapism we ever heard' -NME
'Fresh from a tour of the Hebrides (honest!), local heroes LCS release
their second offering on heavyweight seven inch vinyl, having recorded
in good old fashioned analogue in lovely Leeds. It's got a beautiful
picture sleeve, and contains three tunes (like all the best "new wave"
singles). I find it hard to say what's so good about Les Cox. On paper
it shouldn't work. What on first hearing sounds shambolic and messy
always seems gain a logic of it's own, and comes together to produce
tumbling C86 pop-punk. Musical quotes from the Sex Pistols and the
Kinks root the tunes in an earlier, simpler era, and I'm wonderfully
transported back to my bedroom, and a mono record player with a wonky
motor. Against all the odds, a magical record'
Craig Wilson, Narc Magazine