BubbleWrap Holocaust - BubbleWrap Holocaust
A peculiar catchiness found in moments of clever sloganeering and post-modern poetry
About as Scottish as they come, BubbleWrap Holocaust have evolved from their origins as a duo to incorporate a second bass guitar and dedicated Weegie vocalist extraordinaire. As is the tradition with foreign towns, they could comfortably be twinned with French, dual-bassed contemporaries Le Singe Blanc. Both share that same love of the eccentric and both explore the potential of their unorthodox instrumental set-up to good effect. Easing from post-punk to swing via a myriad of other nuanced genres, BubbleWrap Holocaust's identity is rubber stamped by Colin Stewart's idiosyncratic vocals. Though largely unconcerned with melody and thus unlikely to be sung in many showers, they have a peculiar catchiness found in moments of clever sloganeering and post-modern poetry. If Captain Beefheart had grown up in Glasgow's East End and smoked fewer cigarettes then he might well have sounded something like this. That's no bad thing. [Chris Cusack]