The ABC Club are from Leeds, a five piece who make some rather enjoyable 'proper' indie-pop music, whilst some people think NME might have helped pioneer the downfall of guitar music by heralding fodder such as Brother (Viva) and giving Pete Doherty, Liam Gallagher and co complete support despite them surfing up unlistenable shit time after time. It does however, still have some good reviewers and plenty of people with their ears to the ground capable of find a decent band or two (even ones with guitars).
They (NME) picked up on The ABC Club for their (generally) impressive Radar section in September last year describing them pretty accurately too, "the quintet deal in powdery pouting, angular guitar lines and sprightly hooks". A listen to "Thieving Magpie" sees you greeted by surging pacing from jangly guitars, driven drums and a fantastic vocal from singer Zandra Kleivens, it soars and wails in extraordinary fashion. "Friend of Mine" chimes along in similar vein, gorgeous melodies, if guitar music is to get some of it's popularity back, then The ABC Club will be perfectly placed to take up the mantle of one of the best new guitar bands.
Whilst I'm on the topic I'm going to put my cards on the table and say that I think guitar music is anything but dead anyhow, I'm not the head of EMI so I don't really care about record sales, I care about music quality and The Joy Formidable lead the way for me there are plenty of fantastic bands out there. I've featured numerous already (Let's Buy Happiness, The Strange Death of Liberal England, Echo Lake etc etc.) and there are an increasing number of bands coming through too who'll be featured again, Spotlight Kid, Hold Kiss Kill, Veronica Falls. I could go on.
Anyway, the point of this was to say listen to The ABC Club, you can below:
The Abc Club - Get Set Go
Thieving Magpie by the abc club
the abc club - Friend of Mine
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