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“Moderate Rebels are not trying to tell anyone what they should think or to make ‘statements’ about what we think. We like asking questions; asking questions is our thing.”

With part one of their album trilogy ‘If You See Something…’ proving a favourite of BBC 6Music and Radio X, London-based collective Moderate Rebels announce the release of part two with the single ‘Every Cheat You Meet Sings Love Songs’ out now on Moshi Moshi.

It is, say Moderate Rebels “A song about noticing obvious insincerity, whether that's light entertainment, political speeches, or personal relationships.” This ambiguity provides a thread across their three-part thirty track album, and further develops the band’s tribute to the dystopian science fiction story.

Moderate Rebels love driving rhythmic repetition, discordant guitar fuzz, hazy psychedelia, twinkling piano ballads, drum machine rigidity and playful synth pop. Their touchstones – Phil Spector, Fripp & Eno and Syd Barrett, Spiritualized, St Etienne and Stereolab, and the wry humour of 80s Pet Shop Boys – are stamped with their own inimitable identity.

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