London, UK · jangle punk

The Tubs

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Welsh-London jangle-punk — Richard Thompson melodies at Buzzcocks speed, folk-club craft in a punk frame, the revival's sharpest writers.

The Tubs are a London-based group formed in 2018, with members whose roots lie in Wales and in the earlier band Joanna Gruesome. Their songs combine chiming, interlocking guitar lines drawn from jangle pop and British folk-rock with the tempo and terseness of late-1970s punk, and Owen Williams sings in a clipped, plaintive style over them. Lyrically the material tends toward grief, anxiety and awkward self-examination, delivered plainly enough that the melodic brightness of the arrangements sits in open contrast to it. They record for Trouble in Mind and have drawn attention for the density of hooks packed into short songs.

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