Wednesday at Red Eye Fly: South London's The Capes

Last week we finally acquiesced to peer pressure and signed up for one of them MySpace accounts, something which our friends had long promised would bring us untold fortune, prestige, and - on a not infrequent occasion - direct access to a cornucopian bounty of slutty hipsters. The redundancy of that last term aside, we did find ourselves, nary an hour into our grand new social experiment, face to cathode-ray-tube with a bevy of:

But once the novelty of that venture faded away, an hour later we came across something far more interesting:

The Capes.

Hailing from South London, which has of late brought us such impressive acts as Bloc Party, Art Brut and M.I.A., these guys play a refreshing mash up of angular, throaty art-rock/post-punk. Some of their songs hearken to mind the wailing dissonance of Mission of Burma or Radiohead, while others remind us an awful lot of their Brooklyn contemporaries PAS/CAL. Either way they're a delectable dish of new-wave revivalism, which should satisfy many discerning palates. We're looking at you.

Coincidentally, a band to whom they may credit their origins is playing Emo's the same night. And while we agree that it would be fabulous to relive the early eighties heydays with Jon King and his Gang of Four, those wanting to see what it all led up to might consider catching The Capes over at Red Eye Fly. Hell, the venues are so close you might as well do both.

The Capes (Hard Soul Records)
Wednesday, October 11
Red Eye Fly
11pm

Downloads:
Tightly Wound (MP3)
Galaxie Fraulein (MP3)
Supergirls* (MP3)
Shinjuku Hi-Five* (MP3)
Firstbase* (MP3)
*Three tracks taken from the forthcoming debut full-length album, Hello