Twisted fire starters!
Subliminal Girls sound like David Gedge's post Wedding Present outfit Cinerama gone disco or a middle-ranking Britpop group with a new-wave fetish. Quite why anyone outside of London would give Camden venue Koko (home of Club NME lest we forget) a second thought let alone write a song about it is anyone's guess but replace "Koko" with the name of your city/town's trendy indie disco and you probably get the point they're trying to make here.
The droll humour of flip-side "Mirror" is even more enjoyable ("we love Pete he's so fucking deep and the Mars Volta they're the new Pink Floyd") and further emphasises the band's anti-fashionista stance. Subliminal Girls (a D.I.Y. super-group of sorts with loose connections to Art Brut) are clearly a band who can recall a time when liking indie music wasn't necessarily a fashion choice, when it was pretty exciting to head down to the newsagents on a Wednesday to pick up a copy of the NME and for that reason alone I can't help but like them. Hopefully the 'Girls will have some more lyrical ideas up their respective sleeves for single number two as you can only go so far in lampooning scenesters before the joke starts to wear thin.