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Meet Ditches, from Stockholm coming straight out the gutter and speeding into the part of your brain where all the catchiest melodies lurk for the rest of time. This is their debut LP, a frantic collision of powerpop, garage rock and the most addictive of yer favourite punk classics. Think the snot of the Adolescents with JJ ONeills natural way around a melody, or simply recall Jeff Burke of The Marked Men/Radioactivitys knack for invoking the tartrazine high and the sugar crash at exactly the same time. All these things can be found here, and plenty more besides.
Burke actually shows up on production duties, lending backing vocals where necessary, although while its evident that Ditches approach shares a certain something with his outfits, they also very clearly sculpt their own universe.
Songs like Stitch Me Up owe as much to high speed pub rockers like The Boys as to the Denton, Texas sound, while theres a gentle nod to the endlessly memorable hooks of Pete Shelley in their plaintive melodies, as well as a whole lotta stuff thats fundamentally their own. Mainly though, this is just a thrill ride from start to finish. Get it on your stereo, start pogo-ing and accept youll be repeating this for the rest of forever. The best band to come out of Sweden since ooh, I dont know. Ebba Grn? Yep, probably.
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