There is nothing wrong in my mind with saying that you’re brilliant. I think The Line of Best Fit is great, and if I was in a band, I could write a song about how wonderful this website is. The Sequins obviously share this view, having written for their rather excellent album The Death of Style their own anthem, “Everyone is Loving the Sequins”. And you know, I am loving The Sequins. Their music is that sort of jittery pop that sounds good anywhere - in my car, in my living room, on my headphones, on the crappiest home speakers to the biggest state of the art hi-fi. They remind me of a million bands from my past, not that I can put my finger on any one of them, proving that maybe they are totally original after all.Coming out of Coventry, they are signed to Tough Love Records, and have filled their album with intensity and passion, full of nervous, flickering guitar lines. In vocalist Hywel Roberts they have an unusual singer, his voice modulating around the music, at times sounding weak but often singing with an excitement that suggests he’s just remembered what a great band he’s in. The songs are short and punchy, with an early 80’s aesthetic, particularly “The Lost Art of Friendship” which is full of bubbling bass, played at breakneck speed with a sustained guitar break raising the pulse. “Felix” also features heavily the rise and fall of Roberts’ vocal, chipper chords spurting around him.And then “Lets Go Drinking in the Morning”, fast, furious, almost nonsensical, simplistic in sound but full of complicated shifts and changes. “The Usual Delights” contains the closest this album gets a to a solo, slamming into a buzzsaw guitar. The whole album plays at such a ferocious speed, barely taking a breath through to the climatic “The French Way of Life”, where the sound is more expansive, with no less intensity. With such a fine album, I am happy to add my name to the cult of Sequins fan. I suggest you do as well. 83%Links The Sequins [official site] [myspace]