A very good friend of mine gets feverishly angry every time anyone describes music as ‘angular’. “What does that mean?” he wails. “It’s not sodding trigonometry! I’m not trying to find the hypotenuse of the chorus, am I?” No Sami, you’re not. But you know what it means, don’t you? And hidden beneath the glistening guitars of ‘Hurricanes’ is something undeniably… pointy.
It’s that hidden zesty goodness that makes kids in tight trousers want to set their drink down somewhere and clap their hands above their heads as one knee attempts a Jagger strut, and that’s what Pull Tiger Tail have expertly managed to distil. And the best thing about ‘Hurricanes’ is that it’s not just yer common-or-garden dancefloor fodder – even though it is ace at potentially damaging volumes – because it’s got a chorus large enough that if you put a cowboy hat and some crap sunglasses on it, you could easily call it Bono’s ego.
Even when placed alongside luminaries such as ¡Forward, Russia!, PTT have still managed to come up with something different enough to warrant your attention, because just when ‘Hurricanes’ seems to be perfectly content as a prime slice of jagged indie-pop, it somehow mutates into something quite marvellous. A delicious shower of buoyant, pounding melody closes this single from a band that, bucking the current trend, appear to be truly worth the hype.
This song made me change my opinion of the band completely
Whereas before I chose to ignore them on the basis of the two previous average singles its the sheer windswept class of this song that makes me look forward to their forthcoming lp.
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Have you heard LET'S LIGHTNING?
yeah
i love this song as much as I love the others, they are some truly awesome singles.
glad to see PTT finally getting a review on here too!
bring on the LP, i say.
Good single
Good band.
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this guy likes 'the others'
that band sucks!
burn him!!!
Live
personally i really like the band but do not think what it sounds like on record lives up to their live shows, it will be interesting to make a direct comparison between them and forward russia when they pay together at thekla.
Good tune this la
mhmmm
those boys have done good...
i'm very proud of them!
Stepping to the Nth degree
I'm a big fan of this band. I don't think what they're doing is particularly innovative or original, but when the tunes are so catchy and appealing, who cares? When one of their songs comes onto my iPod I automatically feel the need to turn the volume up. And when it ends, I want to listen to it all over again. That's about as high a compliment I can pay a band I think.
I just can't get enough
Their music is actually addictive. It sends chills and this single is just as infectious as the rest and packs and emotional punch. It draws you in and you have to listen again and again. I would cry myself to sleep every day for a v. v. long time if these boys weren't to make it, so deserved is their eventual superstardom.