Sounds From The Junkshop #81 - The Electric Soft Parade
"And all I know is no-one is my friend/But it's empty at the end/So we start again..." - Electric Soft Parade - Empty At The End I think what originally drew me to Brighton indie-experimental types the Electric Soft Parade was their much-vaunted love of my old favourites the Boo Radleys . The Boos had split up a couple of years prior to ESP breaking through and I s'pose they'd left a bit of a hole in my listening habits so the prospect of a group coming along to fill it was definitely something that interested me. The group had formed in Brighton around the turn of the millennium (we seem to have been covering a lot of bands from this area in recent SFTJ's - Clearlake were from there as well and Easyworld hailed from just down the coast in Eastbourne) and were based around brothers Alex and Tom White. The pair were taking the tried and tested indie formula and putting an endearingly wonky sort of psychedelic take on it with incredibly catchy hooks and cho...