Dead! Dead! Dead! - ‘George Lassoes The Moon/The Mightiest Melodrama Of Them All’ (Tough Love) Released 13/03/06

Someone once described the songs of The Wedding Present as a “noise like a heart snapping”, well Dead! Dead! Dead! are the sound of that heart coming back to life and snapping all over again with a smile on it’s face. ‘George Lassoes The Moon’ takes Gedge and co’s ceaseless post Smiths riffs and paints them onto a bigger canvas, creating vast waves of chopping guitars, soaring vocals and four minutes of raw, breathless emotion. ‘The Mightiest Melodrama Of Them All’ is well, melodramatic and eccentrically tongue in cheek, traversing skittish beats front man Neil Dunsire screeches like a madman on the loose taking us on a ride across a whole host of guitars scuttling over each other in a race to be catchier, louder and more jubilant. Witty and ambitious, at the moment there seems to be nothing holding D! D! D! back.