Manchester’s Doctrines (bandcamp/soundcloud) have an urgency and attitude that has given them somewhat of a visceral reputation for live performances up North with their punk-styled shouty indie, and choruses with sing-a-long pop sensibilities. On the musical spectrum they sit somewhere between Japandroids and Johnny foreigner, and our fine friends at Alcopop! are releasing their EP in a couple of months – so expect some beautiful packaging as ever. It’s a four-part “futuristic tale inspired by that mad old guy Raymond Kurzweil, transhumanism and postgenderism” – and yet more from the perspective of a few guys on a sci-fi kick than the pretentious posturing it implies.
You can grab the first track below for free with the EP dropping in June.
…and just because their cover of Billy Bragg’s Lovers Town Revisited is awesome:
