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The Panda BandSleepy Little Deathtoll Town EP Bam Boo/MGM Much has been made of the apparent explosion of Perth bands over recent years - though anyone who's been at our venues in the last two years could give you a list of world-class bands on our own doorstep - but there's definitely something unique about Perth's ability to pump out off-centre, melodic-but-quirky bands centred around one idiosyncratic songwriter ala The Sleepy Jackson and Luke Steele, for example. And that's a comparison that The Panda Band's singer/songwriter/often sole instrumentalist Damien Crosbie is probably already heartily sick of, but he can take solace in the fact that the psychedelic groove of Eyelashes is a hundred times the song that Good Dancers is. Eyelashes would be enough in itself, but luckily the rest of this EP is just as immediate. The title track has a woozy, drunken-brassed charm that recalls Blur at their most luvverly, while Fools'n'Sharks and Then You Appear are more restrained pieces of indiepop, but the beautiful Quiet As Meeces is the EP's heart, pittering away at the centre of the record. How Crosbie plans to sustain this over an entire album is anyone's guess, but for now this is a hell of a debut.  |
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