aaamusic | On 13, Sep 2011

VIDEO for THREADS is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdk9x3CEca4
http://www.myspace.com/evansthedeath

DATES:
14 September – The Lexington, London – w/Standard Fare, Red Shoe Diaries
23 September – Roadhouse, Manchester

Following in the footsteps of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and Allo Darlin’, Evans The Death will be releasing their debut album via Fortuna POP! early next year. Before that though, they release their eagerly anticipated second single ‘I’m So Unclean’ on 6 September. You can see the ravishing video for this track here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTebot8rJU (feel free to post)

Evans the Death make frenetic and infectious punk pop which exudes the kind of unbridled charisma, intelligence, and runaway energy that promises a singularly exciting future for the band. Comprising Dan Moss (guitar, vocals), Olly Moss (bass), Katherine Whitaker (vocals, keys), Rob Mitson (drums), and Matt Gill (guitar), and named after the undertaker in Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, they’re one of the most refreshing and exhilarating new groups around.

Following the release of their instantly acclaimed debut single ‘Threads’, and a series of celebrated live shows around the country, Evans the Death have been given extensive airtime on BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music, as well being made John Kennedy’s ‘Xposure Big One’ on XFM.  ‘I’m So Unclean’ documents with dry humour and bathos the contraction of the world and its contours which characterises the experience of personal breakdown: ‘My dressing gown is my choice of apparel for this season/so I stare at the cat for a while/the minutes have changed into miles, and I’m too tired to walk…’ Breathless guitars, a devastating and thunderous bassline, and soaring unraveling vocals combine to hint at something akin to the Gun Club meets Prolapse meets Elastica but arriving somewhere else entirely; a hyper-smart searing pop single which can’t fail to ratchet up the excitement as to what the band will do next.

A chance meeting between Dan and Katherine at a gig a couple of years ago led to the first incarnation of the band, but it was only after recruiting Dan’s schoolfriends Matt and Rob, and younger brother Olly, that Evans the Death began playing the kind of shows that made both them and their audiences sit up and take notice.  Having evidently spent a good proportion of their young lives attuned as much to the lyrical dexterity of Morrissey, Lawrence Felt, Edwyn Collins, and Jarvis Cocker, as to the scuzzed up melodic exuberance of early My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, The Pixies, and the I Am Kurious Oranj era of The Fall, the band effortlessly blend precocious musical literacy with the kind of unerring self-awareness which makes for a perfectly pitched pop sensibility.

Elegantly handled self-deprecation, mordant wit, and a willingness to embrace your own awkwardness go a long way when you have the sophisticated grasp on the things that make music exhilarating, nervy, and vital which Evans the Death manifestly do. With their compellingly unhinged and hyper-intelligent pop the band are blazing a trail through 2011 and beyond.

“There’s sharp songwriting at play here. The hooks are all in the right place, brash and urgent in the very best way.” (This Is Fake DIY)