Blog: Licorice Pizza

I'll tell you what appeals to me about London-based quartet Favours for Sailors: They've got a guitar-driven, very catchy sound reminiscent of Television, and they describe themselves as "Becks-fueled." Becks being my beer-of-choice at my gentleman's club-of-choice (pay no attention to the blatant attempt at landing a sponsor). Favours for Sailors comes from London, where they formed in late 2005 after Alex Bratt arrived in town and reunited with university friend Jon Crawford. The two started practicing together in an old leather factory, forging an early post-hardcore sound of unplayable, mathy [...]

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