If you've been tuning in here for any length of time, you'll know how cool Manc contenders I AM KLOOT have quietly been fashioning an unlikely, heroic run of singles.
The paper trail began with the release of the zonked-out, but totally likeable trundle of the Damon Gough-ish "Untitled #1" and continued via the startlingly primal voodoo of the recent "Life In A Day". Both were startlingly unusual, dropping hints that Kloot were looking some way beyond the confines of the average 60s-obsessed indie troops.
Now, here's the equally puzzling, but equally embraceable "3 Feet Tall": possibly the most bizarre of the bunch on the surface, yet jealously hoarding the most hummable melody lines of the three and showing in spades that singer/ songwriter Johnny Bramwell has this idiosyncratic brilliance approach honed to a T.
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All of the Kloot threesome stamp their authority on this one. As ever, Bramwell casually releases all sorts of deceptively simple lines on guitar while Peter Jobson's slippery, probing bass slides in and out at the crucial moments and Andy Hargreaves makes like Pete Thomas in a wind tunnel, while tambourines rattle around his ears. Hell, even the bloody cowbell sounds heroic on this bugger.
"Loneliness, it's got your name and your new address," notes Bramwell ruefully at one point. Not for much longer, though. If they can keep this creativity going, Kloot will be walking into some very crowded rooms indeed.
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