The Novocaines

All The Novocaines songs are availble to purchase from www.cleanlivingrecords.com "Hardworking and Innovative a real pleasure to watch" "Phat Choonage that makes your heart pop" ’’Working class lads making SONGS for the deaf ears of money!!! bout time, too many art students clogging up the system Thanks For the Great music!!! ’’ I aint heard a band which secrectly embodies joy divison, the editors, they dont hide the fact they follow the same path as joy divsion, but fuck me, these guys have made it your own and more, respect times like these i wish i wasnt musikly retarded. . KRUGER - ISSUE 17. MAGAZINE REVIEW www.krugermagazine.com Holy calamity, sweet insanity . Clearly nobody was watching the table that The Novocaines were keeping their drinks on. Someone’s slipped the speedy stuff in their vodka tonics and now their music just won’t stay still! From the urgent, punk pop pogo of Digital Disco, the growling bassy thrust of Ultra Violence or Lycra-Crises disco-drive, these are some tunes to get toes, feet shifting and heads banging (and subsequently hands reaching for the AlkaSeltzer cos you’ve overdone it the night before). But it’s on the Empress of Russia that the rocks really come off (so to speak) and the band settles into an urgent, stamping, shouty groove, perfectly judged and exquisitely executed. Likely to incite your local indie disco to a lowkey riot, it’s nice to see The Novocaines have stepped up the pace. Let’s hope they can keep it up. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KRUGER - ISSUE 13. MAGAZINE REVIEW THE NOVOCAINES Heroes and Heroines Clean Living Records After much to-ing and fro-ing I finally got my hands on the new EP from the west country’s favourite underground band, The Novocaines. It’s a lovely little piece: ‘Isolated Love’ is an intelligent Britpopesque gem, while ‘Heroes and Heroines’ is a great uptempo jangling party music. Fuck the comparisons, this is tightlyplayed, bright, shimmery guitar pop at its glorious lo-fi best. Look out for the hidden interjection of (live) drum&bass too: rinse out! And refreshing in these days of Mygeneration bands (who can’t play live for shit). Wicked. HP