Remember that ‘Know Your Limits’ advert where the floppy-haired indie boy rips his earring out and pees on his own shoes? If you answered yes, then you know of Eight Legs already.
Not because they’re shoe-pissing indie boys, but because it was their single ‘These Grey Days’ that was sound tracked the advert we all secretly loved watching.
Along with sound tracking Friday night reconstructions, the band are already doing quite well for themselves supporting The Cribs on tour and sound tracking the glamorous Dior Homme show way back in 2006.
New single, ‘Best of Me’ is from the band’s third album, ‘The Electric Kool-Aid Cuckoo Nest’, due on February 22.
Darker than their previous releases, ‘Best of Me’ is a song about paranoia, tinged with a feel of impending doom; the sort felt by listening to a lot of Kaiser Chiefs material, ‘I Predict a Riot’ especially.
The vocals are unbelievably Jam-like; a cliché comparison that most reviewers like to avoid but after the mother of this reviewer asked if I was, in fact, listening to The Jam, I felt I should make a point of it. Eight Legs’ sound is neater than Weller and co. however; less rough and ready, more chart-friendly and a little lighter on the ears.
When you take ‘Best of Me’ out of context, it’s a good track, but in comparison to the band’s earlier stuff, it doesn’t quite hit the same spot. If the boys really want to get noticed in 2010, they need to return to their poppy, lighter sound, the sort thoroughly enjoyed by shoe-pissing indie boys across the country.
