And let’s keep kickin’ and stickin’ in Boston since the Beantown-based Ride the Snake label was awesome enough to send a big, juicy package of their goods. My fave seven inches out of the satchel were by local heroes The Black Clouds and Cuffs. The four songer by The Black Clouds sounds like the loser stomp of early Cheater Slicks with a little more choogle in its stride, while the Cuffs 45 makes me wanna reference the majesty of The Monochrome Set without wincing at all; quite a feat. Oh yeah, somewhere in the box was the second full length by Tasmania’s pride and joy, The Native Cats, entitled Process Praise, and it keeps the script going from their previous releases by sounding like nothing more than a lost minimal robot rock classic. Is your copy of Colossal Youth looking run down? Jam this and give it a rest, why dontcha?
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KATIA GANFIELD on CUFFS
from katiaganfield.blogspot.com:
Although the name ‘Cuffs ’ might not necessarily strike you as one of a band, put the images of S&M and Bondage to the side, and concentrate on listening to the amazing surge of soft vocals, warm indie guitar and resonating lyrics.
They reside in Cambridge MA, next to Harvard University and describe their sound as “post-graduate quarter life crisis, realizing you are no longer in your mid-twenties and day dreaming about living in London circa 1987 – think Monochrome Set with Ira Kaplan on guitar or the Embarrassment trying to write Prefab Sprout songs”.
All the band members are musically pretty well off: two of them having played in an indie-pop band Pants Yell, the bassist in Big Troubles and the guitarist in Reports. It’s time this amalgamation of indie-pop talent got their deserved recognition so they can be well on their way to 2011 indie-pop-world domination.
Watch out for their new 7” single [out now on] Ride the Snake Records. Instead of heading to the sex shop to get another pair of those plastic cuffs with no key, in the false hope you will one day sexually harass someone, head to the record shop and get some real Cuffs.
Soft Abuse Shouts Out CUFFS 7″
from Soft Abuse, May 20, 2011:
From the ashes of Pants Yell! comes CUFFS, a band “comprised of 2/3 of the band Pants Yell, a member of Reports and the blonde kid from Big Troubles.” Their debut single has been released by Ride the Snake Records & judging from the a-side (streaming via the CUFFS bandcamp page) you won’t want to sleep on this… Andrew’s very particular (& brilliant) songwriting style is on full display here. All hail CUFFS!
CUFFS duo set and Reports on Pipeline! on WMBR
On June 7th, Andrew and new bass man Joe went into the basement studios of WMBR at MIT and cut a live-on-air set set. Three weeks earlier, Reports did the same. Have a listen to both here. CUFFS brings reverbed out minimal pop glory in this half-sized lineup, and Reports previewed most of their forthcoming Dinamo Cambridge LP. go on over (CUFFS set is in the June 7th podcast, Reports in May 17, enjoy!)