Seal Cub Clubbing Club – Super Science Fiction

You can't not like a band called Seal Cub Clubbing Club, whose album is called Super Science Fiction.I mean, you could if their songs were all rubbish. But it just wouldn't be right. It just wouldn't be right for such a band to be rubbish. Either way, it's bound to be worth a good few points in their favour.But mostly, I guess, with the actual, real-life Seal Cub Clubbing Club, I'm pretty consistently disappointed. They're not a bad band- far from it- but they're just not that special and for a better, also Liverpool-based example of what they're doing look out for Wave Machines.But in my head, Seal Cub Clubbing Club are the greatest pop band of this most recent millennium. Super Science Fiction combines the clunky, tossed-off majesty of The Unicorns with a more directly majestic vintage synth-pop sensibility, sort of a lot of 'Blade Runner'-type sounds involved. The album gets its name because it is a superpop science fiction epic, about an alien star-merchant named Taxlos Nar who becomes involved in a universe-wide conspiracy to topple the Federation of Enlightened Homeworlds. Taxlos Nar gets the girl and kills the baddies- is initially an unwitting pawn in the wider uni-political game ('Lone Planet') but is eventually responsible for the evil conspirators being brought to justice, conquers his inner demons dating from when he was a child on the tiny, mining-world of Aure ('Aurienteering'), and even discovers love in the arms of the beautiful human woman who he teams up with to defeat the conspirators, Space Commander Amanda Redfearn, VsC 1st-class, and the top graduate of her space-class at the prestigious Alpha Centauri Military Academy at Tigris-12 ('Pspm').Aw man I really wish Seal Cub Clubbing Club were like that in real life... again, not that they're terrible. Some songs on here are actually really good, like 'Down Lamb' which is/was on their myspace and was really very promising I thought (and I believe is about Taxlos Nar killing some sort of space lamb?!?!?). But I think the world needs more superpop science fiction epics. I don't necessarily think the world needs any less indie-funk (I guess, is what you'd describe this as), but... meh. Not that you can really blame bands for not being like they are in my head, but you know. 60%Seal Club Clubbing Club on MySpace