After an eventful summer full of festivals and recording, Newcastle four-piece, Little Comets are set to release their first single on Columbia Records, "Adultery" on October 26th.
Signed in early 2009, the band released tiny debut "One Night In October" in February, gathering support from the likes of Huw Stephens, Zane Lowe and Sara Cox. Following a nationwide tour in April and a quick-snap performance at the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend, Robert (vocals), Micky (guitar), Mark (drums) and Matt (bass) trouped off to France to finish recording an actual album.
Creating songs to counter-act the chill factor of their sandblasted, opaque north-eastern rehearsal facilities, their music has a genuine, refreshing degree of energy currently lacking in the British indie scene. But to contrast the band's warm grooves, Robert's lyrics represent the more broken parts of life, exploding scenes from kitchen sinks and other testing relationship dramas.
"Adultery" exemplifies such a juxtaposition, as a winding tale of "subtext and lies" and "sullied back doors" interjects with a rhythmic and melodic optimism mining the same rich seam as acts like Vampire Weekend, Modest Mouse and Black Kids. Blended with surges of Morricone from all manner of sources (kettles, sofas and peculiar percussion), the self-produced single is neatly tempered by the mixing skills of Rich Costey (Glasvegas / MGMT). Rejecting traditional avenues of playing to an audience, Little Comets have instead preferred the more intimate and spontaneous mixture of bingo halls, lecture theatres, tiny-implausible-venues and trams that themselves and their growing legion of fans frequent.
Little Comets took their live set around the UK and Ireland this Autumn, supporting Oregon four-piece Hockey, The Twang and the band are also currently on tour supporting The Noisettes and will be heading out on their own set of headline shows in November and December.
Newcastle isn't known for afrobeat, but Little Comets are on a mission to put that right. This crosses Talking Heads and Vampire Weekend, with a syncopated beat, all-round summery gloriousness and guitar motifs you want to play again and again. Wonderful stuff.
The Guardian
Classy pop euphoria in your face
NME
...enough anthemic indie-pop to propel the four-piece however high they wish to rise
Clash
...this band deserve your undivided attention
The Fly
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