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the bomb nypc
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by Tom King
  • Type: Single
  • Release date: 12/02/2007
  • Label: Modular
  • Info: Download: out now. Physical release: March 5

Everybody loves dancing. Dancing is fun. And in the immortal words of Strummer, this is where you move your arse sideways instead of up and down.

Problem is though, New Young Pony Club focus on the dancefloor to the detriment of everything else. The predictably erratic hi-hats, the scratchy bass, and even the ‘darn-sing / darn-sing / darn-sing’ refrain itself carry more kinetic energy than a Duracell rabbit set to ‘fuck’. If being loved everywhere from Camden to Koko by those to whom dancing and thinking are mutually exclusive is their mission in music, they’ll win by knockout.

Yet there lies the stench. Soulless shtick will only go so far; after an NME cover shoot and a toilet-venue tour you’re a spent force. But don’t let this disguise the fact that ‘The Bomb’ is illiterate, brilliantly average, cynical indiebeat at its very best. This will trip in and out of the NME-sponsored meat markets on the same waves of fashion that have always transcended substance, and to be honest, it deserves to. Because whilst for three minutes under the bright lights it could sound like the best song ever written, six months later it’ll be as stale as yesterday’s pissy rain.

Stop worrying and learn to have no opinion on New Young Pony Club. Because if it’s not love, then it’s dancing to ‘The Bomb’ that’ll bring us together.

  • New Young Pony Club 6 / 10

brilliant review

sums up my opinion on these kind of bands completely


i really like this song

and i think that dancing and thinking can be mutually exclusive.. unless yr thinking about how yr dancing...

bags of fun and no, not too serious as most danceable tunes aren't, still prob spot on on the life expectancy


Don't they just sound like...

...a boring version of Ladytron?


Directionless

Now I know what my dear old droog Alex was referring to when he said "fuzzy warbles."


hmmm

have a lot of love for NYPC. heard this song a while back and glad its got a release. at the end of the day its 3 minutes of fun dancey tomfoolery and who cares if it has longevity, im sure there will be a new scene to take its place before ppl tire of it


shit but

not as bad as that turd of a tune ice cream thing they released a while back

the chours is ok but i hate all that hoxton 80's spandex/leg warmer
shite anyway ... its well bum!!

keep it foolish...


very very

good review


The recognition I deserve.

Hurrah.

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