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Band Of The Day #30 - WINTERMUTE "Shark Vs. E-Boat" (exclusive download)

Leeds quartet Wintermute draw from a fairly desperate pool of genes – Dan Howard and Dave Hemmings match taut guitars with tortured throats and end up squabbling amid the same starchy textures conjured by the likes of Good Shoes and early Futureheads. But where those bands have always been, or at least have moved towards the observationist, chart-legible end of the musical spectrum, Wintermute’s is a much more oblique pop; calling US luminaries like Thursday and Minus the Bear in to graze tonsils in outbursts of cold glee directed, you feel, at lost girlfriends.

This exclusive download of ‘Shark Vs E-Boat’, courtesy of On The Bone Records, captures everything the band do well in a dark-eyed snapshot, instruments idly amusing themselves with tight-as trapeze, riling the vocalists into unbound knots of pent. Shouts rise up and the simmer back down into cooling guitars that put the walls back up. Wintermute cast themselves as shark in this stunted catharsis, self-destructing with a smile, jabbing guitars a torpedo amid the torpor.

Exclusive download: Wintermute - 'Shark Vs. E-Boat'

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- Kev Kharas

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