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Who are they? A Reading five-piece, P&TP cap two brilliant limited-edition singles, Come on Feet and Knots, with Little Death, a debut album that restores your faith in the desirability, never mind viability, of free-spirited pop-punk. Not for a crotchet or quaver does Little Death ape the risible, effortful posturing of today's postLibertines corporate-indie wannabes, for which Breaking Act says: hooray! With lyrics full of wistfulness and self-doubt, and blink-and-you'll-miss-them songs that hurtle melodiously but shambolically towards their climaxes, P&TP are a band to make you renew your do-you-love-English-pop? vows. Say "I do".
When's the record out? Little Death is released on February 18 on Stolen; www.peteandthepirates.co.uk .