Executive Legs may quote from Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on Washing Machine ( 'Water, water everywhere") but this record is the antithesis of poetic.
Sophistication is not one of the band’s goals as they seem to aiming for the anarchic amateurish sound of girl groups like The Slits or perhaps see themselves as Yorkshire's answer to Pussy Riot.
The follow up to the band's debut Leg It! contains eight songs which cover topics like time travel, dinosaurs, rabbits, geometry and domestic appliances.
The press release states that it boasts "slightly higher production values" but I challenge anyone to spot the difference if you play the the two records back to back.
There are ten legs in the band: Martha Julian and Katie Moore both play casio keyboards, Mary Ashworth drums, Gwen Doddsgriffin sings and lone male Johnny Ford plays bass and electric guitar.
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Doddsgriffin is from Brisbane, Australia although the band formed in Leeds. Her voice is deliberately brash and abrasive in keeping with the crude synth-dominated arrangements.
Only the final track, Grandfather Paradox, clocks in at over three minutes so the eight tracks of crazed, ugly, pop-punk product mercifully only lasts just over twenty minutes.
You'll swear it was longer!
Executive Legs' website
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