The Needles - Girl I Used To Know

The Needles
Girl I Used To Know
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Glasgow-based doyens of the masterfully crafted 3 minute power-pop stomper, The Needles release a double 'A' side single on March 26th. "Girl I Used To Know" coupled with "Dead Or Alive" will be available on CD and feature "Only If You Want Me To" as the extra track / "B-side".

The Needles specialise in tightly-packed fizz-bombs of perfectly-formed pop-sensibility style punk - the latest in a lineage that takes in three minute heroes like Buddy Holly, Beach Boys, The Clash and Supergrass with echos of XTC-style new wave. But this is no re-hash of old riffs. The Needles deal in future retro-ism - timeless melodies about love and life and loss delivered by men with one eye on distant alternative futures, and all glued together by an instinctive Ramones-esque brotherly bond.