You're A Crocodile, I'm An Alligator

Being a Londoner has its perks. Any band will play there, the music scene is ace, you have four H&Ms on Oxford Street etc etc. Now we can add a new thing to the list: Hatcham Social took out an exquisite new disc, Sidewalk EP, as a vinyl. Wait, there’s more. There are only 100 copies to be sold in London each with a different artwork done by fans, members of the band and fellow bands (yes, the name ‘The Horrors’ pops up at about this time).

The title song is by no means a new one: it was featured on Hatcham Social’s debut You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil. Those passionate of the London Scene should know it by now: a shoegaze-titled bass-driven gem. As I was saying, this is an EP so there are some more songs on it, five to be more precise. There’s the Echo&The Bunnymen-scented Wild Creatures, the 60s pop-tastic King Kong, a Josef K-infused lo-fi cover after Beach Boys’ Surfin’ Safari (a great rendition of a mediocre track, if you ask me). We also get two remixes, both as haunting as the originals: one for Hypnotise Terrible Eyes (that isn’t really all that different, just has some added woho’s) and a borderline industrial rework of the title song done by.. here we go… Horrors’ very own Tom Furse.

So I guess that all that’s left to do is to either move to London or order this EP off the Rough Trade site. If there are any left.