They told me they had to go see someone, which sounded more mob-like than it turned out to be.
The background: Don't be fooled by the first track on their MySpace, a dance remix of their forthcoming single Got Something On Me by someone called Andrew Friendly, which sounds distinctly Teutonic and techno-ish, the sort of thing you'd imagine being produced for sweaty basement dives by men bearing handlebar moustaches and leather chaps.
Someone called it "bedroom folk," which sounds about right.
There is the synth-heavy Fortune 500, which sounds like someone force-fed Radiohead a load of Haribo.
Next, there's the nasal whine and rapid "sound effects" of the fruit-eating omao, which sounds like someone in the forest tuning an old-fashioned radio.
And he'd have appreciated Tower's rendition of a broken exhaust, which sounds "like someone in a suit of armor getting dragged up the street".
Who'llgimmeme 310, brrbrup," Kelly starts in his trademark high-speed bidder call, which sounds like someone's attached electrodes to a woodpecker.
Some sentences are constructed entirely of hand-me-down phrases, like "Edmond was walking a thin line and covering his bases," which sounds like someone playing baseball en pointe.
I recommend whangby, a coarse cheese, or esshole, which sounds like someone from Kensington trying to be a little bit street but is actually "a large hole under the fire of an old Saddleworth house to hold the ashes".
Helen spends her days and nights washing bedsheets that Nicola has sweated through, bringing morphine pills and hot-water bottles, listening outside the bedroom door to Nicola's snoring, which sounds "like someone choking," driving her friend to the bogus "Institute" where she undergoes her hopeless remedies.
