The guys from Mogwai were once honest enough to admit that one of the main reasons for specialising in instrumental 'Post-Rock' was that they were not much cop at singing.
This is quite possibly also true of Wicket. Certainly there's no hint of Welsh choruses from these three young men from Cardiff and they are plainly ploughing much the same furrow as their Scottish counterparts.
The trio are former music students who met at the University of Glamorgan. Their academic research has clearly been efficiently applied to the, by now, all too familiar formula of slow building intros proceeding to inevitable all hands to the pump crescendos.
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The seven tracks on their confident debut album range from a two minute 'ditty' Lead Them To Water to a ten minute "sonic frenzy" of Chant In Lonely Peace.
There's not a lot to add really save to say that they push all the right buttons and that there are no songs about cricket.
Wicket's website
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