Frenetic alternative noise . Get ready – this is your big catch of the day.
| “Yeah, you’re sailing with the best…” |
We only share the most off-the-wall ambitions here on mvm. You needn’t look any further than Dumb Buoys Fishing Club. The whizzing brain-child of London-based artists DanDlion & Havelock comes a new venture of brazen bangers, stylised in a new project package of an esteemed exterior. The energy between the pair is incomparable. The first sound we ever got was Formula, an electric amalgamation of wailing sirens, woozy Gorillaz-bass lines and lyrical ingenuity that’s not too far from the shore of grime. The London pair are joined by both Merlyn Wood and joe unknown in the booth – two uncut gems in their own right in the world of alternative punk and experimental hip-hop.
The aim of the game is momentum with this one and so we’re met with another funky-bop in Skeleton Town, a swanky instrumental awash with bold lyrics met with explosive delivery, “Hasn’t anybody ever told you / You’re a bloke who’s … Soft in the middle like tofu / And imma play you like a game of sudoku / 24 karats on my chain and my gold tooth / See me with a pretty la bonita / On the seaside.” The song also has the subtle presence of fellow-Londoner Qhairo who offers his sultry tones in the fourth verse.
We have another to dive into, too. Most recently, the efforts of Fortune Teller was released. A delectably catchy blitz that can have easily fallen off the boat to Cracker Island or even off the sultry B-sides of electronic overflow of Death Grips’ Bottomless Pit. Whimsical lyrics marks a pretty near perfect trio of singles, as they display their salt-water sounds of mischief and angst to the world of alternative. It’s almost as if Leicester-based boys Easy Life took a dark turn in their otherwise all-smiles catalogue. Instead of summery beaches of palm trees and milkshakes, we get the dark and stormy of incessant seas.
They’ve navigated the stormy seas of finding their sound, now it’s the proactive slew of never stopping the grind; continuing on into the unknown.
DanDlion and Havelock’s DBFC have already had some serious backing from the likes of NME, earmarking them as ‘certified new bangers’ and even Spotify pinning them as poster boys to the alternative future playlist. They are fast on their way becoming “the future of the genre” – whatever that means.
On the live front, it appears that their first fight or flight moment was a slot on this years’ Great Escape Festival in Brighton. Taking stock and building a fish army of liberal slimy punks, they venture out to the coast of Newquay this week, before diving down North to Battersea for a London show. In Europe? Don’t fret – they are also covering the French fish with a show in Paris in November. You can find out more information on their rather fancy website:- https://www.dumbbuoysfishingclub.com/tour.
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