"I went to the leisure center / on a Tuesday evening to the pool / half price day / two for one!"
The swanky "Colchester Leisure World" an artful sonic bricolage of vintage British dance / music hall, folk, and country rock filtered through a modern slinky psychedelic jam garage rock aesthetic by Essex's (UK) Bag Of Cans, consisting of George Baker (vocals / trumpet), George Bryce (guitar / vocals), Tom McGhie (guitar), Sam Watts (bass) and Joe Wilson (drums), is as refreshingly cool as a Tuesday evening visit to the pool at the "leisure center" (half price day / two for one). These guys craft sonically rich music that will feel sort of janglish poppy one minute and transform into a super charged garage rock bit of punkery the next and then shape shift once again into some sort of prog pop cabaret rock thingy (?).
The emotional sense here is acerbic, kind of drunkenly buzzed while tea steeped in rock n roll history. Listening to "Colchester Leisure World" I felt the musical nucleic acid of iconic bands like The Kinks, The Who, Bruce Wooley and the Camera Club, The Jam, T.Rex as well as more contemporary retro rock / prog pop outfits. Maybe an amalgam of The Hives and Cheekface. Hard to reference similar artists which is a great thing actually.
LINER NOTES about the track:
"We slowed down the track eeeeever so slightly before adding the lyrics, to give it a swampy slightly woozy feel. We then reeeeallly slowed down Tom screaming at one point and shamelessly included that in the song."
"Colchester Leisure World is where Bryce cried when their mascot (a whale, or some unfortunate and underpaid teenager in a whale costume) gave him some marbles at an early birthday party."
"The blue flume is definitely the better one."
[Bag Of Cans live in Norwich and are still living off the heady release fumes of last year's thunderously inventive 'We Are A Band' album.]
[The release of the 'We Are A Band' opus saw our Norfolkian heroes - oft compared to the thumpingly cheery likes of Blur, The Kinks, Art Brut, Serious Drinking and, of course, Dingus Khan - in full stormtrooping form, playing Truck Fest and Y Not and selling out the local luscious Art Centre. No less significantly, Joe finally learned how to find serenity within himself; George Bryce failed to do some basic mental maths and was embarrassed; Tom learned the terrifying truth about how figs are pollinated; George Baker finally learned to ride a bike; and Sam listened to the heartbeat of a muntjac deer on a cold autumn morning.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYkOChJ9TWRgoGx2NuSs30w
https://www.instagram.com/bagofcanstagram/
https://www.facebook.com/BagOfCansBand/
https://twitter.com/BagofCans3
Bag of Cans are a quintet weaving through the musical ranks on a sound described as “a gloriously surreal mix of old school indie, Weimar Berlin cabaret and Kinks circa Village Green Preservation Society”. Birthed from the effervescent swamp that is Norwich's music scene in 2017, the band have garnered a reputation as one of the must-see bands in East Anglia with invariably hectic live shows. Sinewy guitar lines glide between a relentless rhythm section and a penchant for indie-pop vocal-harmonies.
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