#1259 Squeeze - Cool for Cats

Damned cool British New Wave, with storytelling full of understated strangeness and wit, more The Jam than Elvis Costello (that's good). Where other bands of the era were overtly quirky, leaning hard on nonsense and synthesizers to make a splash, Squeeze made the combination seem natural, knocking out an honest to god heartacher with Up the Junction, right alongside hitchy masterpieces like the title track. Squeeze just do their thing, swaggering with pub rock legitimacy, telling stories with truth over confident, throbbing, sawtooth pop. Funky, enjoyable, stuff 4/5