London indie-poppers Firestations unveiled their debut album ‘Never Closer’ late last year, and ‘Cold Sweaty Palms’ is the second single lifted from it. Featuring members of Astronauts, Dark Captain, Quickspace and Left With Pictures and citing Veronica Falls, Pentangle and Sparklehorse and inspirations for their brand of dreampop an spacey folk with ‘scuzzy indiepop hooks’, they’re a band I want to like.
Precisely how representative this download-only release is is hard to say: the original version of the track is accompanied by a remix, and remixes of two other album tracks which have been electroed up and pumped with some disco grooves courtesy of Stats and Gavin John Barker. The sparse electro-folk of the latter of these is substantially more interesting of the two, but I suspect they’re far removed from the originals, just as Bit Cloudy’s interpretation of ‘Cold Sweaty Palms’ renders it almost unrecognisable.
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If you’re already a fan of the band, this may or may not be a good thing: maybe the fans want more new material. Surely they’ve not run out of songs or ideas already!
Still, the original version of ‘Cold Sweaty Palms’ ain’t bad, a fairly nifty tune that chugs along nicely courtesy of some damped chords and a bit of a laid-back psychedelic rock vibe that suggests it’s probably worth checking out the album.
Firestations Online
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