If you need some joy in your life – and God only knows we need it this week – may I heartily recommend the rainbow of fruit flavours that is NUTRONSTARS. Be warned: this is music that will bring a smile to your face and a bitter-sweet craving for the rampant hormones of teenage summer holidays. A trio from Carlton, Nottingham giving bountiful life to the songs of Bob Tarbuck (on guitar and vocals), NUTRONSTARS make the kind of pop music that instantly fills the hole in your life you never knew you had.
Which is another way of saying that ‘Melody Rules Everything’ (Handclaps and Fuzz)’ is a great big fat pleasure from start to finish: the sound of a band tripping over themselves to cram as many tunes as possible into two and a half minutes of pop music. Early Beatles, The Jesus and Mary Chain, early Primal Scream, Vince Clarke, Denim, The Fall, Glam Rock, The Lightning Seeds, Simian and Junior Senior may just be part of their record collection: whatever, each of their 7 songs is thickly coated with bubblegum and is insistent in its determination to make you happy.
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So simple in execution but so fulfilling an experience NUTRONSTARS are the past and future of pop music in one package and everyone else may as well start all over again.
They’ve got a song called ‘Surfing The Sunshine’ and that’ll do as a summation of their musical kaleidoscope.
Recommended so strongly I may burst.
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