Up-&-Coming// Electricity In Our Homes.

Formed and based in London, Electricity In Our Homes’ shocking brand of edgy art-rock with noise-pop undertones, teamed up with a minimal 50’s and 60’s Rock ’n’ Roll element, is a breath of fresh air upon the East London Indie scene. Summing up their own sound as an inharmonious clash of simultaneously sounded tones. Taking a variety of influences such as Talking Heads, Sonic Youth and Prince.

Becoming renowned on the DIY underground scene for their short, chaotic live performances and astonishingly fast selling singles. With fantastic songs to their name such as the electrifying “Don’t You Want To?” with its ballsy, lumbering bass-line, shuddering guitar and vocal instrumentation. Also next single “Oranges,” taken from their upcoming debut album, sounding like a Buddy Holly LP sped up to 45 RPM underneath a morose vocal style. As well as the epic “Apple Tree,” with bassist Bonnie Carr taking lead vocals, tinged with melancholia backed up by a plodding, recurring chord pattern throughout and Paul Linger’s minimal drum beat.

Electricity In Our Homes are the sort of band that aren’t necessarily going to achieve huge commercial success, but if they carry on selling singles so fast, and with the release of their debut album drawing near, who knows to what extent they will excel, but are sure to become a huge influence to other bands in the art-funk scene in the very near future if they keep writing such exhilarating songs.

Listen to: “Don’t You Want To?” “Oranges.”

For Fans Of: Talking Heads, The Horrors, S.C.U.M, Franz Ferdinand.

Jonathan Hatchman.