Cancel the Astronauts – I am the President of your Fanclub EP

Cancel the Astronauts (MySpace)  have put together five tracks of glorious and unashamed indie pop, adding to the resurgence of Edinburgh’s music scene.  From when the tom-tom-led drums fall into the opening and title track “I am the President of your Fanclub (and last night I followed you home” and are joined by some Strokes-esque tight guitars you know you’re in for indie-danceable delight.

They aren’t reinventing the wheel, but with a sound that fits somewhwere between The Futureheads and We were Promised Jetpacks with a little of first album Franz Ferdinand thrown in for good measure, they succeed in making glorious pop and certainly sound like they’re having a fucking awesome time in the process.

My favourite of the five, Lets go Expo, opens with a wistful quiet guitar which is then filled out with the vocal melody, and then built up and driven forward by some ballad-style drumming before the whole thing falls apart and hits the offbeat rhythm that would light up any indie dancefloor. As an EP debut, this is a gem of potential which I hope they can fulfil in their full-length.

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Cancel the Astronauts – Lets go Expo