Not Many Experts

Yo, ve are so alt that we play 1/2 sized guitars for giggles and have pre-pubescent moustaches.

Sigh. “MEN is a Brooklyn-based band and art/performance collective that focuses on the energy of live performance and radical potential of dance music. MEN speaks to issues such as wartime economies, sexual compromise, and demanding liberties.” Oh. Lord. Thank God I didn’t read anything about MEN before I was completely won over by their stomping mélange of The Rapture, Friendly Fires, New Young Pony Club, Hot Chip and just about any other band from the past 5 years who have strayed dangerously close to the notoriously unsuccessful rock/dance cross-over.

The thing is, despite their biography pretentiously claiming that they are slowly solving the world’s biggest problems one by one (as a zany art collective, of course), “Off Our Backs” just sounds an outrageously catchy ode to sex that should be shaking the walls at Radio 1. Misleading press release aside, though, “Off Our Backs” is a completely essential foray into treacherous rock/dance territory, and its strength is solidly backed up by two other tracks that are currently circulating; “Simultaneously” and “Credit Card Babies”. They keep knocking out tunes like these, and they’re going to have to put saving the world on the backburner for a minute so that they can lay down an entire album of this completely undeniable brilliance. Count us both converted sceptics, and insanely excited too see how this unfolds.

MEN – Off Our Backs

MEN – Simultaneously

PS: Apologies for the short absence – I had to turn 18 and then put myself through a Chemistry exam. Painful.

PPS: In other vaguely related Not Many Experts news, I got interviewed by Stylish Kids In Riot about the music industry/blogs/“the future” etc etc. You can read it here, if it so tickles you.