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It starts with some well-timed wake-up-call shouts and a guitar line that follows a sultry but shrewd female vocal. Then the male vocal comes in. Then there’s a time change and more shouts. And the vocals mix up. And then…

It’s not I’m From Barcelona or Architecture In Helsinki, but it’s certainly in the same vein. While the aforementioned references are Scandinavian and Australian respectively, running in parallel with them are this Norwich crew, Bearsuit. Here we have a theatrical costume cupboard brim full of mad musical expressionists illustrating the point that a pop song need not follow a set pattern. Here we have, at last, one of the singles that will make 2007 memorable.

John Peel would be proud and Norwich should be, too." Drownedinsound

Formed in 2005, the transition from the bedroom to the big stage has been swift and rapid for Kharma 45, so fast they’ve hardly had time to think about it. Gestating in Northern Ireland, far away from any infectious ‘scenes’, the band have emerged with a sound that melds the worlds of dance and indie in a manner that isn’t just a shallow marketing ploy - this is music with depth, meaning and feeling.

 

Their debut album has been produced by Martin ‘Youth’ Glover (U2, The Verve, Primal Scream). The perfect man to give the band the huge sound they were looking for, there are few producers who can utter the phrase ‘What about having an explosion in there?’ and get away with it (it makes a change from asking for ‘more cowbell’ as well

 

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