Stop it.  Stop it.  Just fucking stop it.  Don’t panic, this is emphatically NOT about paedophilia.  Before you get your knickers in a twist have a quick look at the tracklisting, and in particular the band names, and hopefully you will see why the podcast has the name it does.

So what am I really on about?  Well, I happened across a band recently called Young Girls, and it finally became clear that after Bear Crystal Wolf Fuck Ghost bands, the new fashion is quite clearly paedo bands.  Bands whose names, whilst not exactly dodgy in themselves, lead to a lot of very, very awkward moments on Google.

So there you go.  No awkward debates about awkward psychological or sociological issues at all, I promise.  Just lots of good tunes by bands with dubious names.  Mostly.

Direct download: Toadcast #188 – The Paedocast

01. Teens – Golden Years (00.05)
02. Girls – Broken Dreams Club (05.59)
03. Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag (15.19)
04. XX Teens – The Way We Were (19.23)
05. Tim Minchin- Pope Song (26.17)
06. Sonny Boy Williamson – Good Morning, School Girl (33.27)
07. Young Boys – Bring ‘em Down (42.30)
08. Young Girls – We’re Not Friends (46.30)
09. Tiny Tim – Tiptoe Thru’ the Tulips With Me (51.36)
10. Sexy Kids – Sisters Are Forever (59.17)

Fortunately the results weren’t quite as Special Branch-alerting as they might well have been.  I heard about this band both from Ed over at 17 Seconds, and from Colin who writes And Before the First Kiss, and put them on his 2008 Mixtape which he gave me at Christmas.

Oddly, this is a band which has been blogged to death by everyone from here to fucking Timbuktu, but all they really seem to have is a couple of tracks, a seven inch single and a clearly pretty fearsome black belt online marketing strategy.  This may be related to the fact that, despite being a Glasgow band almost entirely unheard of in this part of the world (correct me if I’m wrong on this, please), the single itself has been released on the really excellent Slumberland Records.

This expertise has resulted in the record being enthusiastically fellated by Pitchfork and many of the more influential US blogs, before the band seem to have built up that much of a reputation over here.  Certainly they have no live dates posted, and people I know who have tried to book them have found the band to be elusive, to say the least.

Still, the facts are fairly independent of all this nonsense.  Sisters Are Forever is a superb pop song, infectiously enjoyable, plundered right from the twee end of the eighties indie revolution and plopped happily into our laps here in 2009.  It’s not musically all that inventive, but it’s incurably catchy and bags of fun, and if this is the kind of trick these guys can pull off then fair play to them – they deserve the success.

Their other songs appear to be a little less overtly poppy, however, and I would actually say that this is a good thing.  There’s a bit more blank, flat tweeness, and a bit less bouncy, grinny poppiness which makes them seem a little more moody.  I’d say that this is actually suggests that there might be more to this band than just an irrepressible tune or two, and I hope this turns out to be the case.

Sexy Kids – Sisters Are Forever

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Sexy Kids – In a Box in a Bag

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