Great Eskimo Hoax/Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

Only two degrees of separation from math-poppers Foals, whom I was checking for information about their new album (soon, please), both of these bands caught my attention.

Firstly, the Worcestershire Math-poppers Great Eskimo Hoax, who while they may be blessed with a sixth form band name, play a number of tracks in the same vein of foals, with more than a passing nod to Kinsella brother's latter day ands such as American Football and Joan of Arc.

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Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, however, share not only the dinosaur obsession with a certain Diplo (formerly Diplodocus) but also his uncanny ability to make something sound absolutely toss yet genius at the same time. Taking 80s beats and pads that really were horrible at the time and making them sound new and vaguely exciting: proof that you can polish a turd.

T.E.E.D. will be supporting Bent's greatest hits tour and have an EP out now.

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