Okay, who knows about these fellas....
The Grand National, "Kicking the National Habit" Every so often a group comes along that combines all the best music you grew up with together with a giddy hunger to push the envelope forwards into the future. That combines the angular guitars, pounding basslines and heady euphoria of New Order and the Mondays with the metropolitan nouse and witty introspection of bands like Blur. Grand National are that band. A pair of young Londoners about to release some of the best experimental pop songs this country has produced for, oh, too long. This National Saving Grace, indeed.
So who are the mysterious boys behind this intoxicating noise? Step forward Rupert Lyddon and Lawrence 'La' Rudd, two young men who have come to rescue us from karaoke pabulum and prefab retro garage rock. To add a little fresh lustre to our lives with their thrillingly strange yet simply compelling melodies.
