Presenting: Tortoise spelled backwards...

Apparently named after the Roald Dahl novel of the same name, Brighton's sunny soaked indie kids - Esiotrot - their catchyness is quote unquote imminent with the release of their upcoming EP Schmesiotrot.


Having gigged alongside Danielson, Jens Lekman, Clearlake and Jeniferever to name but a few, there are definite Sweden twee superstars coarsing through the blood of this ever expanding little but not so little band...

Stephen Mulkmus gets jiggy alongside Suburban Kids with Biblical Names on many of the tracks, but more lo-fi though...

Chipper and chiming all breezy with horn sections ala Belle & Sebastian on Marianne they give you that lovely warm and fuzzy feeling with cute heartfelt lyrics that we've grown to adore about the Swedes.

On There'll be a time for nice guys (my theme song at mo'... don't ask... or do...), incidentally, they tend to remind me a little of South Africans Eat This Horse (whom I posted on two weeks ago). It's kinda like The Strokes Spooning with the Microphones on a sunny holiday trip somewhere in Stockholm, along some Sunday drive daydreaming. Well, swerving short of crashing into The Velvet Underground...

Maybe Johnathan Richman would make some Modern Lovers of them yet!

Marianne
There'll Be A Time For Nice Guys
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The nice guy
- Ri