Photo by Julien Bourgeois
With The Stone Roses reunion dominating the headlines, it’s worthwhile putting their much applauded ‘legacy’ into perspective, and the current crop of exciting young acts from Manchester certainly do.
With PINS, The Louche and G R E A T W A V E S dominating music blogs around the world, it’s rather telling that none of them particularly draw inspiration from Ian Brown & Co, in fact, they’re almost the antithesis of everything The Stone Roses now stand for – that being dollar driven, passionless and utterly washed up, a stark contrast to the bubbling, energetic scene found slightly deeper in the hear of Manchester.
Of the aforementioned ‘scene’ (an awful word, so I apologise for it’s use) one band in particular stand head and shoulders above the rest, grasping the ferociously burning beacon that is new music in Manchester. Now I’ve waffled on in the past about just how refreshing M O N E Y are to UK music, desperate to pull the one dimensional guitar acts out of the early 00’s and allow the creative spirit inside each of us to truly be let loose. With the poignant SOLONG(GODISDEAD) proving one of this years highlights, they’ve now unleashed the B-side; I’ll Be The Night another fragile, ever so melancholic number, that reeks of unfiltered honesty and an admirable level of personal indulgence. Check it out below. (Via lovers No Fear Of Pop.)