The Riff Raff: Love From London
Without sounding like a grandparent, the sheer volume of tracks featuring lyrics involving various play on lines such as “won’t you feel my body,” leaves many of us begging for…
By Rachel Reynolds • • 1 min readBring in The Riff Raff. Their new song “Your Company Corrupted Me” invites a multitude of opinionated debate (particularly relevant in the current political climate), whilst NYC loves London offers one of those songs that causes even the most conservative among us to throw out a few cheeky foot taps. The line: “ I’m so sorry, that I’m such a moron,” proves particularly refreshing.
The post-punk, melodic anthems of Alex Thompson, Harry Robinson, Paul Noels, Richard Soward and Andy Hill, manage to lasso complete attention and cause those who haven’t yet heard of The Riff Raff to demand why. Already infiltrating Europe, the band featured in the documentary ‘Strummerville,’ directed by the award-winning Don Letts, and channel 4 music series ‘Strummerville Session,’ as well as attending the CMJ music conference in New York and headlining BBC introducing at Glastonbury.
Your Company Corrupted Me by the Riff Raff by wearetheriffraff
“Your Company Corrupted Me” will set something alight. Watch this space.
– Izzy Laurence
(Love From London is an ongoing series where correspondents Alex Kenning and Izzy Lawrence introduce us to bands generating excitement across the pond.)