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: Crash and the Bandicoots
Based: Swindon, UK
Listen: crashandthebandicoots.bandcamp.com
Similar to: Micachu and the Shapes, Late of the Pier

Whatever next? Donkey and the Kongs? Banjo and the Kazooies? Great band names aren’t hard to come by these days. Pun-based monikers are ‘the thing’, with Joanna Gruesome, Bos Angeles, each backing up a thriving lo-fi punk scene with brilliant titles to boot.

It’s a relief that such golden names are being put to good use. Imagine if Crash and the Bandicoots was a dreadful group of 15-year-old metalheads, doing dim-witted covers of Green Day as a means of winning over ‘all the girls’. Fortunately this self-professed ‘lo fi pop’ group have genuine invention at the heart of their tracks, bringing forth an analog approach to songs, all amounting to a distinctly pop body of work.

There’s a blend of wit and sarcasm to their lyrical style in ‘Emily’; a delightfully innovative production approach, of a Micachu and the Shapes-ilk, in ‘Don’t Have Any Legs’. It’s good to come across a band not taking themselves too seriously, both in name and by nature.

Stream the self-titled EP below and purchase on bandcamp if you see fit:

Crash and The Bandicoots by Crash & The Bandicoots