Telegram

Monday 29 February 2016
The Portland Arms
London four-piece Telegram come to Cambridge

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"Telegram look so indie you could slap a photo of them next to the dictionary definition of the term. If you watch the video for their debut single Follow, you'll see what we mean. They look like a composite of key indie musicians past and present, if you take the Velvet Underground to be the first indie band. They've got Sterling Morrison on guitar, Crystal Crescent-era Bobby Gillespie on drums, Joey Ramone on bass, and on lead vocals there's the young Wayne Coyne.

Their music is equally synthetic, if you take that word to be the adjectival corollary of synthesis. It sounds as though it was created under laboratory conditions to sound utterly thrown together and spontaneous, a haphazard amalgam of krautrock and psych. They've got cool kraut credentials, actually – or at least one of them has: guitarist Matt Wood spent 18 months working at Faust's HQ in Germany, and psych-wise, well, Follow was produced by Dan (Toy) Carey..." The Guardian

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