New band of the day – No 864: Guards

Imagine a scruffy anorak band doing one of those old death discs like Tell Laura I Love Her to get a sense of Richie Follin's new projectHometown: California.The lineup: Richie FollinThe background: As though to prove that rock'n'roll is in the blood, our very DNA, here come Guards, essentially a vehicle for Richie Follin, brother of Madeline Follin, herself one half of Cults. We wrote about Cults back in May when we described their music as mid-60s pop as played by a mid-80s indie band. What Gu...

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