 |  | The MolotovsEloquent leftfield pop troopers THE MOLOTOVS are releasing ‘City’s Guest’ as a download single on fierce panda records on APRIL 5TH 2010. ‘City’s Guest’ is lifted off the sextet’s current mini-album, ‘And The Heads Did Roll’, and ties in with a wee national jaunt which rolls into London Hoxton Bar & Kitchen on Wednesday April 7th – full dates below.
THE MOLOTOVS consist of Will Daunt (vocals / guitar), Henry Walton (guitar), Dom Millard (keyboards / vocals), Iain Lock (bass) Guy Henderson (drums) and Ed Jenkins (trumpet). They do much of their plotting from a bunker in the Fortress in North London where they are currently creating their debut album. They’ve also been quietly causing a stir in the industry’s nether regions over the past half a year with their arched, articulate take on British Pop (not to self: NOT ‘Britpop’) which mixes together the home-grown habits of The Kinks and The Maccabees with the thrills and spills of our overseas cousins Arcade Fire and The Walkmen to cook up a heartily euphoric storm.
‘City’s Guest’ follows hot on the proverbial heels of THE MOLOTOVS’ appearance on the ‘Zip It Up’ EP, the old school six-track compilation released to celebrate fierce panda’s sixteenth birthday at the end of February. A bold attempt to highlight the fresh-faced generation of bands eschewing the dubious virtues of the grubby post-Libertines crowd, the ‘Zip It Up’ EP was a peachy keen New Pop hoedown featuring The Heartbreaks, The Crookes, Hoodlums, Sketches, Ideals and Brilliant Mind.
THE MOLOTOVS also headlined the ‘Zip It Up’ launch / panda birthday party at the 229 on February 24th, all of which kept their momentum rolling along merrily from a 2009 which saw the release of the terrific ‘And The Heads Did Roll’ mini-album on the panda. The fun-lovin’ sixsome appeared at Glastonbury and Fistful Of Fandango, sold out their ‘Come To Grief’ single launch party at the Lexington, toured the UK in the company of The Boxer Rebellion, appeared on BBC 6 Music as Steve Lamacq’s Favourite New Band, rocked the Welsh masses at Cardiff’s SWN and rocked the northern masses at Manchester’s In The City so mightily they were invited to play the Best Of In The City event in London Town. |
