Video: Working for a Nuclear Free City: "Rocket"
Last week we asserted Manchester's Working for a Nuclear Free City are making better Happy Mondays songs than Shaun Ryder. But the title track of the group's new Rocket EP is made of more contemplative stuff than much of the band's self-titled psych-dance debut. An acoustic guitar opens "Rocket", which soon takes off with the kind of space-ballet synths and hook-like basslines that helped acts like Air and Beta Band appeal to corny indie fuxx an Rephlex phanatics alike in the late 1990s. The video, directed by Gavin Wood of Liverpool art collective Juno, has all the grainy space launch footage you'd expect. For now, WfaNFC are right here on Earth, on tour with not-Japanese UK dance-poppers Fujiya & Miyagi.
[from the Rocket EP; out now on Melodic]