Melbourne indie pop/jangle-pop band The Stroppies have aired the video for their new single "Smilers Strange Politely".
The song is taken from their upcoming sophomore album ‘Levity’, out May 6th via Tough Love Records. Pre-order your copy here.
The vocal trade-off between bassist Claudia Serfaty and guitarist/keyboardist Gus Lord has been a constant across those records, earworm merchants with a knack for a canny phrase and a wink of the eye, a winning trait alive and well across these ten tracks. Where the most notable shift has occurred is in the muscularity of the songs, a little more motorik steel to what are ostensibly sideways spun pop songs, an infectious amalgam of Slates-era Fall, Chris Knox wonky melodicism and XTC archness. Sideways, sometimes, all of the time, as someone once opined...
Watch/listen below.
