Let’s trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle

Formed: Chertsey, Surrey, 2005…by James Bedford-Ynez, Bjorn Framm, Vincent Rainbird, and Jackson Stellak. Influenced primarily by Surrey’s hardcore power-violence scene ltohiawtsl created a sound resembling a quiet family day at the zoo being spoiled by a otter eating a child. After building up a strong hometown following they were signed to Wee Records and released their debut LP I’m being frank you, please accept my sincerity. Thanks in the spring of 2006. This bizarre set of songs divided critics in the music press, some going as far as labeling the album as “the worst record to come out of the home counties since that last fucking terrible Paul Weller one”. It certainly wasn’t to all tastes, something that the group admitted to as a badge of honour, but Bedford-Ynez’s barking vocals and relentlessly pornographic lyrics were more deliberately obtuse than willingly controversial. After a grueling 2 week tour of East Berkshire which almost saw the band split they returned to studio to record their breakthrough second album, le death/(men)ace! . A far more melodic offering than their first effort, the record revealed a tender interplay between Framm’s whimpering guitar, Rainbird’s sexy bass grooves and Stellak’s insistence on only using drum beats invented between 1924 and 1959. The songs were also more mature, perhaps reflecting Bedford-Ynez’s relationship with Hollyoaks actess Fiona Deborah, newsreader Sophie Mews and office cleaner Doreen Yentob. The world awaits their next release with baited traps.