LEND THEM YOUR EARS - 21/02/2011 - WE SHOW UP ON RADAR

Hello everyone, as the miserable weather of February looks to give way to the equally miserable, but slightly warmer, weather of March I come to you bearing the gift of melancholic indie pop, in the form of We Show Up On RadaR

A threesome from Nottingham, We Show Up On RadaR produce a rather wonderful, low key type of indie that you could probably find nestled somewhere in the corner of a low budget, British-made Ellen Page film. Songs featuring singing spiders, the use of biological warfare as a metaphor for love and animal sports days (complete with commentary) mark out the bittersweet territory the band patrol with their glockenspiels, keyboards and acoustic guitars. Having supported Bright Eyes earlier this month, WSUOR are working on their album at the moment, with the rather ace I'll Be A Ghost having been made available as a free download on their Bandcamp page. You can get it just below, because I'm nice like that.

Sounding at times like The Boy Least Likely To, after they've listened to a lot of Super Furry Animals and then got somewhat upset about the fact, WSUOR certainly strum at some pretty effective heartstrings. So far they've released Mountain Top and Spider on a Thread as a limited run double A-side single and a 6 track EP entitled A Loaf Of Bread, A Container Of Milk & A Stick Of Butter and do a really quite wonderful line in charming artwork and animated videos as seen in this delightful visual accompaniment for It Should Be You and Me... 

So, all in all, WSUOR are making the kind of music to cuddle up to, sweet but tinged with sadness, laden with school music class percussion and charm by the bucketful. And that is why, dear Sir/Madam/other, you should lend them your ears.

We Show Up On RadaR have various homes on this big wide web, including their Myspace - myspace.com/wsuor , Bandcamp - weshowuponradar.bandcamp.com , Facebook - facebook.com/pages/We-Show-Up-On-RadaR/28073963604 and their profile page on their record label Hello Thor's website - hellothor.com/index.php?/artists/we-show-up-on-radar/

There are currently no plans for any live shows, but hey, these things can change.