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King Whisker - Utopia


I usually steer clear of anything stating IDLES as an influence, they have become the Ed Sheeran of "outsider punk" and that just means that my headspace gets saturated with zillions of bands doing that semi-shouty angsty type of thing. However, on their new release, Utopia, San Diego-based "Art Punk/Art Rock weirdos" King Whisker circumnavigated my taste radar by throwing in a wonderfully oddball keyboard passage in the middle. In truth, the other parts of the track are pretty taut and highly palatable, but that keyboard part really made me smile. The artwork is rather cool, too. Well done King Whisker, this is a right royal success.