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Rising: Male Bonding

Photo by Steve Gullick On their debut album Nothing Hurts, the London trio Male Bonding play a recklessly sped-up version of fuzzed-out 90s-vintage noise pop. Their songs are tight in a sloppy way, or sloppy in a tight way. They barrel through hooks at ridiculous speeds and end before the delay pedal effects on their guitars have time to catch up. It's an unabashedly fun form of punk, one that keeps both loft-party scuzz and pleasure-center melody firmly intact. Fittingly, it's being made by thr...

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14:50 on April 7 2010

Rising: Male Bonding

Pitchfork — Photo by Steve Gullick On their debut album Nothing Hurts, the London trio Male Bonding play a recklessly sped-up version of fuzzed-out 90s-vintage noise pop. Their songs... more info

Male Bonding

03:16 on April 6 2010

Male Bonding // “Year’s Not Long”

Rollo & Grady — Male Bonding (Myspace) Album: Nothing Hurts (Out 5/11) Label: Sub Pop Male Bonding – Year’s Not Long Bookmark It Hide Sites more info

Male Bonding

11:35 on April 6 2010

Listen: Stream Male Bonding album Nothing Hurts

DrownedInSound — Dalston's lo-fi trio Male Bonding release their debut record, Nothing Hurts, on May 10 (by which time David Cameron could well be Prime Minister) through Sub Pop but you ... more info

Male Bonding

21:00 on April 5 2010