Amazingly, we're in Scotland again for today's single: Country Teasers' Against The Country Teasers EP.
As you can tell from the cover design, it's deliberately anti-art and anti-pop in a knowing kind of way. Country Teasers no doubt thought that they were daring sonic pranksters but there's a very strong whiff of too-clever-for-their-own-good about the clatter found within.
It's not awful, in fact it's quite fun, but I can hear Paul Calf behind me muttering 'stewdents' in a withering fashion. And also my dad, shouting 'it's just noise'. I'm very much for generic subversion, wit and intellect in pop, but you've got to come up with the goods. And if you cover dance hit 'No Limits' and then licence it to a Subway ad, you're not daringly subverting either art or commerce, you're a Johnsonian Cakeist.
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