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Patty Winters Show - You Are Wrong

In a saturated scene of delicate, sensitive indie you have be plain lucky to survive and get your head above the sea of skinny ties, jeans and tweed. A band like the Patty Winters show could easily get thrown on to the 'not another one' pile purely on the efforts of their less talented, homogenised siblings.

The first chords of 'You Are Wrong' seem to ring all the usual alarm bells but have life (albeit a tragic and miserable one) breathed into them by a brilliantly gawky and graceless slur of vocals. Highlighting the David Gedge style strumming and achingly basic production, this is a knowing and grateful nod to where indie guitar music all started before scum like Razorlight got their greasy, corporate mitts on it. The lovelorn cry of a female voice provides the backing on both tracks here and compliments the nerdy male lead nicely, providing quite a touching double act. It all adds up to something a little more genuine than the current norm and though not great by any means, is much more preferable.

It may be true that bands like the Wedding Present and The Cocteau twins perfected this style 20 years ago and The Patty Winters show have to a lot to learn in terms of songwriting prowess, but this serves as a timely reminder to some of those frankly appalling gimmicky indie bands of where to begin.