Reptar: Body Faucet – review

(Lucky Number)Pick up a back issue of any indie magazine from 2007 and every band in it will have been making music like this. Reptar are a bit like MGMT. They're a bit like Vampire Weekend. They're a bit Animal Collective, a bit Passion Pit. Remarkably, on Houseboat Babies, they sound as if they've taken vocal inspiration from a YouTube video of Pete Doherty doing an acoustic reggae cover in a crack den. This is the Afrobeat-tinged equivalent of landfill indie, a band deciding to have a go at ...

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