Veronica Falls are twee as fuck, but don’t hate them for it.

Featuring former members of The Royal We, they’re certainly paid up patrons of the indiepop mafia. But behind the thick-rimmed Ghost World aesthetic and the Velvet Underground Factory cool pulses a morbid heart of black desire.

Possessed with the spirit of early Creation Records, “Found Love In A Graveyard” is the Mary Chain charged on faded romanticism instead of S&M sleaze. They may be candy talking into the ears of ghosts and dress like overgrown children, but Veronica Falls know how it feels to be loved: dark, desperate and bloody ecstatic.

A 12″ is forthcoming on Captured Tracks in the new year. But of course.

Veronica Falls – “Found Love In A Graveyard”

Thanks to the sweet kids at Home.Under.Ground, we’re DJing at the Male Bonding Xmas party this Sunday (20th December).

Since the Vice show with Gallows and Lovvers has been cancelled and this is taking place at their spiritual home (like an East London Smell), it’ll likely be a huge blow out. Or at least Teen Sheikhs will be the most drunk band in the universe high on beer and Christmas pizza.

I’d settle for National Lampoon’s… and “You’re So Vain” on repeat for hours. That’s the place I’m in at the moment.

Teen Sheikhs – “Cracked”