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Six Nation State
Six Nation State

Brilliant, brilliant stuff from the Reading based band. I saw them supporting something way back in February (it might have been Howling Bells, not sure), and whilst they were only ok, they did just enough for me to remember their name, and so pick up their album when it emerged in September. I have played it tons: it is a brilliant collection of bawdy indie tunes (with occasional sax). This falls somewhere near Fratellis territory, but with added ska in places. Feel good track after feel good track. Highly recommended, if only for the use of a recorder on ‘Everybody Wants To Be My Friend’. My favourite tune on the album, now played to death, is the manic ‘Taking Me Over’, complete with faux-cockney verse and an impossible-not-to-holler “ahyayayayhah” chorus. Genius.