I Was A Cub Scout - Pink Squares / Teenage Skin

Despite defining their sound as "romantic techno," there's nothing techno about I Was A Cub Scout. They use keyboards, but their inexperience with electronica shows. 'Pink Squares' is an indie ballad with keyboard lines that borrow heavily from Apoptygma Berzerk's 'In This Together'. 'Teenage Skin' opens with the punk-disco of The Faint et al but slowly disappears into another ballad with more scrounged keyboards - this time it's Bran Van 3000's 'Drinking In LA'. Profoundly influenced by The Postal Service, the fact that I Was A Cub Scout is an indie band at heart shows, glaringly, through their keyboards. [Neil Ferguson]