'The Sunshine Undergorund' love beats and grooves. On their debut album, 'Raise The Alarm', indie-rock is relocated to the heart
of the dancefloor, without compromise on either side. Named after a Chemical Brothers track, they have Daft Punk in their DNA and yet are songsmiths too, devising 11 tracks performed with the aplomb that have earned them the Love Band Of The Year at the 2007 Leeds Music Awards.
Slippery buggers, The Sunshine Underground. Trust me. Try and put them in a box and they just won't fit, no matter how hard you push. Try and label them and it just won't stick. They're not a band you can pigeon-hole, more one you just have to accept. To quote a fellow sonic traveller: don't fight it, feel it.
Although, of course, people still do. Not least journalists, who, over the past year,...