Formed by members of Big Joanie, All Cats Are Beautiful, Junodef and Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani, WIDGET are the kind of band that could coax even the dance-shy onto the dancefloor. It could be described as Hannah Montana-referencing, discofied dance rock, which sounds better than it reads, trust me.
Funked out, loose and politically conscious in equal measure, WIDGET sit somewhere between Tom Tom Club, the B-52s, The Slits and Le Tigre, only with more Danny Dyer references and a frontperson, in Ky Acab, whose smoky speak-singing carries the chatty intimacy, as God Is In The TV brilliantly put it, of a recently downloaded audiobook.
New single âWHAT IF PHONES BUT TOO MUCHâ is the third and final taster of debut album âCLASSY HITS VOL.2â, out this Friday on their own Peach Records.
Itâs a pulsating, arpeggiated bop about smashing glass ceilings and imagining everyoneâs face replaced with Danny Dyerâs. The band describe it as being about ânot accepting the lot youâve been given... saying âgod no this is absolutely not what I want from life please and thank youââ.
For a band making music in what they describe as the âlast gasps of human societyâ, they sound remarkably like theyâre having the time of their lives, and that energy is genuinely infectious. âWe mainly do this band to just be silly and have fun with each otherâ, they say. It shows.
đ§ Watch the video for âWHAT IF PHONES BUT TOO MUCHâ below.