British indie pop as taken a bit of a back seat recently in favour of all this New York hipster shit, but to be honest, US bands try too hard. As a metric: American bands only celebrate success when they’ve sold a million records and done an endorsement deal with a trouser company. A British band is happy enough with getting on the cover of NME and playing enough pub gigs to stave off starting at the steel mill where all their dads work (but not the drummer’s, he’s dead from an accident).
Wild Palms are a British band who, while perhaps not contracted or duty bound to ever work in a dockside steel mill, are definately worth your attention, bouncy angst pop with just enough new-wave to keep the nostalgists at bay. You’ll find them playing at Comet Club on the 23rd of September, playing their small repertoir of hits with special attention paid to their standout single:
