Artist: Mascot Fight
Title: Pantomime Hearse
Label: Cassette County
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 219kbit av.
Time: 00:27:36
Size: 45.82 mb
Rip Date: 2009-01-22
Str Date: 2009-03-00
1. Terry Is The Chicago Sun 2:57
2. Danger Man 1:48
3. Play The Meathead Anthem 1:44
4. That's A Photocopier (Not A Chair) 1:35
5. City Bones 3:04
6. Thinking In French 2:33
7. Dalian Shied Away 3:32
8. Interval 1:31
9. Diego Barnes 2:37
10. Our Skool Daze 3:35
11. Fifty Kwacha 2:40
Release Notes:
Pantomime Hearse is the 11-track debut album by Mascot Fight,
recorded in a second storey studio that overlooks Derby's old
jail and gallows. The band has honed their sound since their
early material and the polished-but-not-overly-slick
production does justice to the stronger hooks and
better-realised melodies. It represents a cross-section of
styles, from the twee-ish pop of That's A Photocopier to the
darker, call-and-respond rock interplay of Fifty Kwacha.
Jangly, concise pop songs dominate the first half the record,
with only Play the Meathead Anthem hinting at the bands darker
side. The hi-hats intro and ensuing riffage soon gives way to
another poppy chorus, however. The mood switches permanently
for the remainder of the album's 27 minutes when the pining
lead guitars introduce Dalian Shied Away. Lyrically, the songs
are sometimes satirical û opener Terry is the Chicago Sun
pokes fun at tabloid newspapers û but often draw from
day-to-day experiences. The likes of Pavement and Blur are
audible influences throughout and the album, with hints of
Pete & the Pirates and Belle & Sebastian peeping through.
Mascot Fight are a 4-piece band from Derby, UK. They formed in
2004 and have released one EP, If Cooks Could Kill (2006).
Bands supported in 2008 include Johnny Foreigner, Grammatics
and The Wave Pictures. They also played at the Christmas party
of Indietracks festival. The band intend to play a series of
gigs to support the album release in March 2009.
"Mascot Fight bring imagination, wit and catchy tunes to the
gentler side of indie, too often a world where such concepts
have been long abandoned as fanciful myth, and they definitely
deserve to be better known and more widely loved than they
are."