The Fat Angel Sings

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Viet Cong feature two ex-members (bassist Matthew Flegel and drummer Michael Wallace) of Calgary band Women, who were a difficult listen indeed. Viet Cong offer more immediate pleasures, if you’re a fan of dark and dramatic, postpunk, goth-ish rock such as Joy Division, the Cure and even Psychedelic Furs. They’re very early 80s, not in the new romantic sense, but in the sense of bands indulging their miserabilist sides before the Smiths added humour to the mix. Their first EP Cassette came out on Mexican Summer but have since signed to Jagjaguwar, with an album . Expect it to include Silhouettes, which has an Interpol-like urgency to it, Continental Shelf, on which they channel the wild spirit of the Doors, and Bunker Buster, a hypnotic groove with jagged guitars slashing across the rhythm’s surface. And you can dance to it