People often say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. After checking out the video for The Carpel’s latest single Handshakes, you wouldn’t be mistaken for likening these boys to the cast of This is England. Which has me thinking…do these boys have something to say about society? It seems they do, even if it is simply in the bold music they are making. Dig a little further into the story of this band and you find out that Michael, Dylan, Tom, Ewan and Jacob are really very young to be making such elaborate self-aware music, with clear influences from 1980s’ British indie.
The...New Music: The Carpels
People often say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. After checking out the video for The Carpel’s latest single Handshakes, you wouldn’t be mistaken for likening these boys to the cast of This is England. Which has me thinking…do these boys have something to say about society? It seems they do, even if it is simply in the bold music they are making. Dig a little further into the story of this band and you find out that Michael, Dylan, Tom, Ewan and Jacob are really very young to be making such elaborate self-aware music, with clear influences from 1980s’ British indie.
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