A few months ago, whilst trying to sate my Tom Vek obsession, I posted on here about my search to find out what he’s been upto since 2005′s wonderful’We have Sound’. The truth is that not many people actually know, but shortly after Test Icicles split, he and Devonte ‘Lightspeed’ Hynes got together with two members of Semi-Finalists to make some backward kind of super group. Called Naked Babes, it featured Vek on drums and whilst the band apparently played two gigs, the end result was an EP entitled ‘Tits Melting’, which has subsequently become almost impossible to find online or off.
Anyway, to cut a long story short – I now have, thanks to a lovely reader, a copy of Tits Melting. And though Vek is renowned for his considered experimental indie approach to making music and Dev has since moved on to making cute folky albums with his Lightspeed Champion moniker, this project was definitely more in the Test Icicles mould. If, like me, you’re ashamed of your love of ‘For Screening Purposes Only’, then these few tracks are something to add to that list as the Ep claims to be a part of the ‘dance rock’ genre, whilst falling short of being either. Made up of chaotic percussion, angular guitar and intermittent yelps, it’s a mixture of being brilliant and quite terrible. It’s little wonder that the project didn’t last long – it sounds like a hangover from ‘Circle Square Triangle’. Either way, it’s interesting and here’s two tracks from it:
Naked Babes – Fuckin’ Dumbell Party (fileden)
Naked Babes – Girls Gone Wild (fileden)
