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"Mobile Disco - Introduction To The Wonderful World of Popular Song"

"Some of the references here may cause wistfulness." (Dial A Disc) Gideon Coe, BBC 6 Music

"Indie: what is it good for? Observational songs about ordinary life that reveal the extraordinary in the detail, set to quirky melodies and off-kilter riffs, that's what. The tradition goes back to all your '60s kitchen-sink songwriting favourites, but contemporary bands that excel at it are few and far between.

Hurrah for Picturebox, then, who capture the Syd Barrett side of early Blur on suburban character piece 'Brightest & Best' and 'Dial A Disc', a jangling lament for a vanished past. Thirteen numbers, including two instrumentals and a very short short story, race past in 30 minutes, from the church organ and guitar fizz of 'Lennie Godber' (one for all of us Richard Beckinsale fans) to the Village Green-era Kinks of '(The World Of) Autumn Feelings'. Sometimes sinister, maybe melancholy, often odd and always engaging, Mobile Disco is here for all your surreal storytelling, guitar bounce, DIY pop song needs. 4 Stars" Ben Graham, Shindig! Magazine

"...tons of ideas and a lyrical adeptness that you can admire and be bemused at simultaneously. An incredible listen. An absolute delight." I Don't Hear A Single blog

"Mobile Disco is a very British sounding album, an album steeped in nostalgia lyrically – “a bag of 10p’s will get you nowhere” – and musically, drawing on the influences of Syd Barrett and The Television Personalities and early Blur, XTC and at times Luke Haines. There is a sad English melancholy and dark humour that runs throughout the album, the sort I always tend to find appealing. And I do find this album appealing. In fact, I think it’s a bit of a gem." Monolith Cocktail

"standouts for me were the nostalgic melodies of ‘Nice Boys Mobile Disco’, ‘Addendum’ and the bonkers instrumental that is ‘Considerate Constructors’....a short album of future indie classics." Terrascope Online

The Car of A Man That Drives Alone - "Fantastic Song. Very moving." Robert Rotifer, FM 4




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Melodic music from the cathedral city of Canterbury. Songs about girls, animals, football, anything, everything, nothing.

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