Everyone has their favourite Sudbury, Ontario based power pop trio, I’m sure. But I bet yours isn’t as good as mine: Statues are on Deranged and were raised on whoops and three chords and the stylings of Vic Reeves. I blame this past week of beautiful weather that I was told only appears in London every other blue moon (which is better than some; I am still convinced that the sun ever shines on Manchester. Singling out Morrissey’s solo career as the reason for meteorological wrath) for my audio preferences leaning towards the happy hardcore way of life, but I would also adhere significant leverage to this record lifting the weather out of the doldrums too; ‘Same Bodies, Same Faces’ has many things and those things include sing-a-long-a-longssss and an ability to make GG Allin seem like a nice fella. Jesus Crikey.

Caught the sods playing the New Cross Inn with amongst others The Shitty Limits but I will be tacking them later and yeah… ‘Living In Lines’ and ‘Distance/Duration’ are anthems that if kids listened to them instead of mopey things they’d have a smile to go with that jarring choice of hair colour. Sample them below. One thing that erks me, however: Mr. Rob of Statues? You look like my dad if he spent his time listening to The Vibrators instead of Yes.

• Statues - ‘Living In Lines’ (from latest LP, ‘New People Make Us Nervous’)
• Statues - ‘Distance/Duration’ (from ‘Same Bodies, Same Faces’ 7″ EP)

They’ve just done a European tour which you’ve missed because you are slow and if you’re Canadian then I’m sure they might play near you. But then again, Canada’s a really big country. Perhaps you should make do by buying records and the like: myspace dot com slash statues.

roman david