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Andy The Free Faller
words by Mandy Drake
“Through crooked teeth you tell me that I’m too ordinary. You can tell from what I’m wearing that I try too hard” goes ‘Death Before The Silver Screen’s’ epitaph. And it’s powerful. Complete with its Nick Cave drawl and ability to have you singing it in a coma the following day, there’s no wonder that it’s the front runner on Honeytrap’s debut EP. Self-loathing has simply never sounded so starry-eyed. But it’s not all tears before bedtime. Jigging around to the sound of Irish violins is title track, ‘Andy The Free Faller’; a thigh slapping story about a paranoid killjoy called – you guessed it – Andy. Funny, because it’s not us, it appears that young Andy may have dabbled in a tad too much cocaine. This second delightful pop release from Coventry’s Tough Love Records sees Honeytrap sit pretty alongside fellow romancers The Sequins as intelligent indie darlings.
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