RedCarsGoFaster - 24 Passes / House of Flies

RedCarsGoFaster are from Manchester and sound like it. All Joy Division doom-and-gloom (and that synthetic Stephen Morris drum sound) mixed with disco-pop to sound like Franz Ferdinand meets Interpol meets The Faint. 24 Passes is never far away from Joy Division's Glass, jazzed up with a little rock-disco. The slower House of Flies adds a touch of atmosphere to 24 Passes' dancability. With the Manchester influences never too far from the surface, it would be easy to write this single off as more pop-influenced-post-rock with catchy melodies and tenacious hooks. It does, however, have something slightly more than that. [Neil Ferguson]