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Glasgow’s Vital Idles Present Sunny (With A Slight Chance of Rain) Pop

Their music may have been described as 'janky' but the four-piece master pure imperfect pop.

Sunshine, shorts and popsicles are not what you usually associate with Glaswegian indie pop, but “Chains” the new video for Vital Idles follows the four-piece as they hang out in a park on a lovely summer day.

Taken from their 12-track demo cassette, the song bops along at a jaunt led by the deadpan delivery of vocalist Jessica Higgins. It’s a track that is dry but poppy. Someone described it as ‘janky’. If it was recorded 35-years earlier it would likely have ended up on hometown pop label Postcard.

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These guys are new, they haven’t played all that much but judging from the tape and video they are a band to keep an eye on.

We had a quick chat to Jessica to find out more.

Noisey: Where was the video filmed?
Jessica Higgins: In Manchester when were down there to play a show with Vexx, Sauna Youth, Sex Hands and Monotony for our friends Comfortable On A Tightrope who put out the cassette. We'd been recording some new songs with Edwin Stevens (Irma Vep), the night before so were feeling a little… you know…! And then we nipped to the park near Nick's house in Heaton Moor for a stroll around. It's a nice park, it has a nature trail!

It looks like it was a nice sunny day.
Yeah, well we were super lucky to have a string of nice days when we were down in Manchester because it's been an AWFUL summer. It made a nice holiday really. Can you drink beers in public parks in the UK?
Unfortunately no. You can't drink outside at all unless it's a bar that has a license and even then only until ten o'clock. Yesterday we were playing at a cricket club so it was a little like a park and we were allowed to drink outside then.

Vital Idles’ cassette is available now.