The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club - The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club

What to make of The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club? Aside from the brilliantly misleading name, this English, Cardiff-based girl-girl-boy trio's eponymous debut album is a 35 minute study in eccentric, abrasive pop music. VEGC construct broken, repetitive slabs of guitar and dirty bass around nonsensical narratives which only rarely touch any shred of reality, exemplified in the discordant harmonies of My Son Spells Backwards. Not just a product of the current wave of post-punk imitators, VEGC also hark back to the more recent days of grunge, with their consciously rough-around-the-edges sound recalling The Pixies (a lot) and even Nirvana (at times). Although their harsh, fucked-up style can be off-putting at first, patient listeners will be rewarded when the carefully considered, consistently original pop tunes begin to emerge from all the chaos. [Nick Mitchell]