Evans The Death - Threads

Evans The Death are young, they look even younger - and they do that melodic yet frazzled pop thing that only the young can seem to do, perfectly.

Preceding a debut album later this year, ‘Threads’ is their debut single; a frenetic, articulate piece of art pop/rock that recalls some of the better moments of Britpop. Think early, raw sounding Blur fronted by Justine Frischmann (yeah, it’s that Britpop).

At times it seems like the song is unravelling at 100-miles an hour, but they’re a knowing lot (they’re named after the undertaker in Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, don’t you know) and there’s sharp songwriting at play here. The hooks are all in the right place, brash and urgent in the very best way.

There’s also sardonic wit courtesy of singer Katherine Whitaker’s paranoid lyrics. She repeats “you put the fear of god into me / why did I watch that documentary?” which helps to make her sound vulnerable yet imperious, a very neat trick if you can pull it off.

All over in just two minutes, burning out amid a screech of feedback, you’re left with an urgent, fresh, clever and fun (we want our music to be fun, don’t we?) statement of intent from a band with a lot of promise.