Video Premiere: The Pheromoans – “The Bovril Boys”.

December 7, 2011, 0 comments

The lush if ramshackle garage punk of UK southwest outfit The Pheromoans has been much-acclaimed for a good while now already, well deserved after a constant stream of noteworthy releases on beloved imprints such as Night-People, Sweet Rod, OneC, and Scotch Tapes. The group’s latest offering Darby Joan & Fosters has just been dropped by Clan Destine Records on shiny black vinyl, eleven tracks of not-to-be-missed excursions into straight and unaltered guitar smashing, including “The Bovril Boys”, a weird and amazing proto-ballade that I assume only true Brits are able to conceive, incredibly melodic and curiously beautiful yet at the same time strangely unsettling as singer R. Walker en passant tells a little story about the eponymous bunch of lads. Masterfully and aptly visualized by Ela Orleans, a perfect collage to picture the music’s disillusioned undertone.

The Darby Joan & Fosters LP is out now on Clan Destine Records.