Daddy Long Legs - Captain Aqua / Soup (Conker)
4/5
By: Thomas Hannan
Daddy Long Legs deserve this belated review (apologies boys, moving office etc.) for - perhaps accidentally, who knows - slipping a nice orange plectrum in to the plastic case for their debut single. It made me pick up a guitar after listening to it. I found a chord I don't think I've ever played before. So, in a sense, they inspired this lad to make some music.
OK, so it might not have actually been as a direct result of the sound of the band that I wanted to create some clamour of my own. But for some young whippersnapper, these notes might just constitute the push in the right direction they need. Youthful themselves, Daddy Long Legs do however know music's history - this recalls all your favourite intelligent British guitar bands, Blur, XTC, The Cure... it doesn't sit still. 'Soup' is a really marvellous shake, rattle and roll through cracking, adorable riff after adorable riff, whilst its flip 'Captain Aqua' is a little darker, something about its curiously murky guitar twinklings and long words suggesting these boys might be pretty damn clever themselves. Clever enough to know that it's not enough to just have heroes, and that you need good songs that sound like they're your own. These boys, here, have two.
Each of their releases should come with a plectrum. And be as full of both the inhibited ambition of youth and knowing glances at great bands as this.
Be in a band. Go on. Everyone
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