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Diet Cig - Harvard

Taking the proverbial Michael out of smug couples with matchy-matchy college sweaters, Diet Cig are in rude health.

29th January 2015

“I’m so sick about hearing your band” were the first words uttered by Diet Cig, a New York based duo who emerged earlier this month with their debut track ‘Scene Sick’. They formed to fill time on their Sundays, spending their hours recording in a bedroom away from New York scenesters’ definition of band coolness. Diet Cig make music to dance and laugh to. They’ve followed it with ‘Harvard’, a track that retains their brash adolescence, whilst shifting the crosshairs at Alex Luciano’s ex, who has found himself an Ivy League girlfriend at university.

Appropriately tagged as #punk on their Soundcloud page, the lyrics express no regret, with expletives firmly leveled at a painfully smug couple and their matchy-matchy college sweaters. As the butt of Diet Cig’s joke, it goes beyond the bitterness of a break up, turning initial pain into a humour through charming vocals and exuberance. The ramshackle simplicity of the music adds to this sense of purging the contents of a diary outwards and onto the wall, with drummer Noah Bowman providing the foundations for Luciano, the duo’s megaphone. In such a short space of time, Diet Cig have created two tracks, announcing that they will take aim at anyone that stands in front of their pursuit of fun. Bear that in mind; should you cross them, you’ll end up as the next track’s target.

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