Another case of other less important things getting in the way. I first received this album in cough April. I’ve been a bit selfish haven’t I?

Never fear, the people in my office do get to hear it, be it recycled through my brain and translated into sallyvoice.

Bronze Age Fox – Impossible!

Impossible, is the debut album by Bristol band, Bronze Age Fox. For starters, individually the tracks are diverse, but also as a whole, the album is quite different from anything I’ve heard. I see names like Simian, Boo Radleys and Phoenix being batted about and I can see where they’re coming from, but I wouldn’t say the similarities are exact.

I’m quite enjoying the mellowness of it all. The jangly synth sounds, especially in Denizens Of The Deep and Pinstripe. The track that most closely resembles hard-ish rock is Hidden Track, but it’s still quite mellow with lovely lady backing vocals. Bouncy, pretty, poppy, perfect dancing material.

Is it bad that the very beginning of the track You Wouldn’t Want Me To Lie makes me picture Mr G from a certain Summer Heights High? Well it does. You probably have no idea what I’m talking about, right? ok. However, after the first few bars, after I’ve gotten that image out of my head, the song steers away from the effeminate male drama teacher sound to a more hearty and textured song.

Some interesting facts about these guys:

The NME described them as “possibly our (UK’s) classiest leftfield pop band”
A previous release in the form of a compilation album of some of their singles was cunningly called ‘Compilation’.
David Edwards (drummer and programmer) has received very critical acclaim for his solo side project, Minotaur Shock.
Dominic Jones (singer) has been “singing like a girl” as electronic artist Red Setter.
Thom Stone (guitar) has been kept busy trying to keep Amy Winehouse out of trouble as her tour manager.
Will Edwards (bass) has been playing bass for Minotaur Shock (his brother) on his live jaunts.

Overall, if we’re talking opinions, I think Bronze Age Fox are brilliant. I’d crank this and do some serious vacuuming any day… or better still… spending an hour or so laying in a park in the sun listening via personal music device (as i type this on a cold raining wintery night)… Bliss.

See more?
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/bronzeagefox
SVC Records: http://svcrecords.co.uk/

You can get your hands on Impossible via their MySpace and the SVC records pages.