Imagine if the Beatles were stuck quarantined in Scunthorpe for a week due to the outbreak of a mysterious virus and had nothing better to do than write a song about their unfortunate experience. Far-fetched? Well I think thatâs pretty much what Swedish band Killer Cashew have done with their debut track âShit Wineâ, with a song that isnât simply a critique of their local Chinese restaurant's wine cellar, rather the entire town.
Theyâre a duo that have been writing together for a couple of years, and whilst tracks with blatant expletives normally get put right to the bottom of the NMR list, thereâs something charming and pretty harmless about âShit Wineâ, a timeless melodic number with attractive vocals and lyrics that youâll end up singing along to by the 2nd listen.
Explaining about the project they describe themselves as an âodd pairing who managed to overcome their differences, and join each other in a search for something that felt wholeheartedly genuine and absolutely megaâ. It's particularly nice to see the return of the word âmegaâ after a few decades anyway.
Of course whilst their musical influences are fairly clear, Iâm less sure whether theyâve actually been to Scunthorpe, so exactly which town theyâre singing about is less certain. It canât be anywhere in Sweden surely?
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