London's Real Lies are the kind of band that makes people like me — people who've decided that bands aren't all that — like bands again. They touch on the concerns of a generation that's been consigned to the scrapheap and are placating themselves with cheap pints and shit drugs, expensive burgers and terrible streetwear. With "North Circular" they've already written a genuine classic, a song for an age of disaffection, disgruntlement and disappointment. The group have arrived at a pretty perfect midpoint between the knowingly arch, playfully camp sadness of the Pet Shop Boys in their imperial phase, New Order's NYC-inspired pop perfection, the unabashed romanticism of Prefab Sprout's more realist moments, and the ecstatic euphoria of classic Chicago house. Talking of euphoria, Krystal Klear's lengthy ten minute extension of new single "Seven Sisters" is set for cult-club-classic status.The recently relocated Irish producer and DJ, who zipped over from Manchester to London, has spent the last few years splitting his time between honing his production skills, keeping up his Hoya:Hoya residency, smashing it on Rinse FM once a month, and delighting punters round the globe with sets stuffed to the gills with chunky house and boogie. Oh, and he's on the new Chic record too.His "Seven Sisters" mix feels like a throwback to the glory days of Shep Pettibone — it builds and builds, teasing, turning, twisting itself into a genuine hands in the air piano house anthem that's going to sound as fresh in twenty years as it does now.
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The original's not too shabby either and the video — shot at the now shuttered Peoples Club on the Holloway Road — has taken on the air of a eulogy for the kind of reckless abandon that's being systematically run out of London. It's a snapshot in time, a snapshot of a moment we thought'd be eternal.
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