Single released 16/09/2007
Bathroom Gurgle
"Welcome to the death of new rave. Welcome to the final dance, the doom disco. Welcome to the Day-Glo afterlife. This is the moment the ventricle bursts, the synapses fry and the generation who invented it are launched into the ether. Not even the loosest of generic labels (and let's face it, 'new rave' isn't exactly a Lycra fit) can constrain the demented beast which Late Of The Pier are riding into the arena. It's such a bizarre, manic piece of music, that when the NME Tracks editor dithered over awarding it Track Of The Week, this writer slammed it on the stereo on repeat and danced at the offending editor until he relented. Goodbye credibility then, it's disolved in a red mist of Venusian party flava. Hello instead: 'Bathroom Gurgle'. This isn't just the best single of the week, it's the four best. Yes, the new rave 'Bohemian Rhapsody' has landed under the polymathic tutelage of four tinfoil-wrapped, ligtening bolt-surfing sociopaths. Crawling from the primordial sludge with a post-punk gothic jerk after a night glugging rohypnol with undead biker gangs, at first 'BG' bubbles with electro-garage spite like Franz might if Alex was repleaced by a melting skull. But that's just the beginning. Moments later it's exploding in a Roxy Music starburst scraping the heavens like Pink Floyd's 'The Geat Gig In The Sky' sniffing from Lidl bags full of glue. Then, at the height of its climb...it pauses...tipping over a precipice and, then...RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROAH. It blows toward the centre of the Earth riding an atomic bomb, blowing party poppers and throwing confetti as LOTP charge into the planet's exploding core. Total meltdown. Totally Brilliant." [NME Track Of The Week]
"This second single reveals what anyone who's seen the band live knows - that they're one of the most exciting acts around" [Music Week]
"Another brilliantly bonkers track from this prog rock / nu rave hybrid, with a dancefloor filling refrain involving waistlines, bass lines and cheap wine" [The Observer]
"Electro-pop meets glam rock. What better way to gain points in the world of electro than to draft in Erol Alkan to produce your new single? Thats exactly what electro-rock quartet Late Of The Pier have done. 'Bathroom Gurgle comes in three parts; the first is synth laden electro-pop that would be at home in an 80s brat pack film, the next explodes into kitsch, glam electro-rock and the final slab ascends into eerie epic rock ala Pink Floyd. Its original and sounds great" [MIxmag]
"Today we're heroes" splutters Late Of The Pier's Samuel Dust. "Its only early but we're already fucked". Late Of The Pier may have been picked as NME's top new band to check out but an inflamed midday audience isn't going to change the way these space cadets do their bizarre thing. 'Space And The Woods' splutters through several murdered Klaxons songs, before 'Bathroom Gurgle' reanimates the corpses through the power of Roxy Music. No, at Leeds the bands charging noodle-pop is derailed only by their urge to send their songs flying several fields to the left. The band flip from freeform electro to, er, banging woden fences on their mike stand. It's as weird a set as you'll find anywhere on site in 2007, but by 2008 it'll all be making sense. Today LOTP sets Leeds teetering on the brink of The Future. This time next year the whole country will be labelling them heroes" [NME Number 1 in Best New Bands Reading/Leeds]
- Bathroom Gurgle
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