 22/01/2009 Nuts and Bolts: Elle Dead – vocals, Jay Dead, vocals, synth, bass, programming
Stomping Ground: London, formed 2007
Set to Soundtrack: Fashionable parties in outer space
Destined to Upset: Your ears
You’re in Business if you Like: Digitalism, autoKratz, Justice, Los Campesinos, Bikini Kill
There are some shit names floating around the music industry, take David E Sugar, for example, great tunes, but his name makes him sound like a Butlins Redcoat who can bring middle-aged women to their knees with his wry smile and cheeky version of ‘La Bamba.’ Then there are those bands which deserve fame and adoration for their name alone. You Love Her Cos She’s Dead fit firmly in the latter camp.
It would be easy to just discuss their name for the next few paragraphs, maybe with a Freudian psychoanalytic approach to the implied necrophilia, but, alas, we haven’t the time, so on with the music... There have been plenty of 8-bit post punksters knocking out scuzzy dance tracks over the last year, but YLHCSD differ in that they are one of the few to walk the tightrope of melody and ear bleeding buzzing and come out the other side without a hair on their fashionable barnets out of place.
Their track ‘Superheroes’ was last year selected for a compilation by très cool French label, Kitsuné, and is all taut drums, a conflicting spider-web of synths and a chorus that batters you into submission with a wall of distorted electro. But it’s not all about post-nu-rave; YLHCSD indulge in moments of vintage krautrock, which could easily have come from 1970s Düsseldorf. Great band, incredible name.
‘Inner City Angst EP’ is out now (Kitsuné)
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