姓名: Childhood 英文名:- 性别:组合 国籍:英国 出生地:- 语言:- 生日:- 星座:- 身高:- 体重:-
"We've listened to the Stone Roses, I don't know, a handful of times," says 22-year-old Ben Romans-Hopcraft, who sings, plays guitar and writes songs. "It shows how people's minds work in terms of the media – how you are perceived is through incarnations of other things. Which is quite an interesting way of seeing things, but doesn't mean anything to us. But it's fun to read."
It's a little early to be calling Childhood out on who they sound like, since there are only three studio recordings anyone can hear: their debut single, Blue Velvet, and its B-side, Bond Girls, plus a single song, Haltija, on SoundCloud.The Roses comparisons doubtless come from Blue Velvet's combination of a dreamily psychedelic melody, sinuous guitar lines and blissed-out Northern soul backbeat. But when you listen to the Bond Girls, it's not the Stone Roses anymore; it's Echo and the Bunnymen. Then Haltija, drenched in reverb until it sounds like it's being broadcast underwater, brings to mind the shoegazers of the late 80s and early 90s. What they do sound like, on all three, is a group in love with the noises they can wring from guitars and blessed with the unsullied confidence of a not having been knocked back yet. Listening to them is a bit like watching Michael Owen in the 1998 World Cup, when it didn't occur to him he couldn't defeat the world's best defences.