Clash Music

The Rascals

Mod sensibility perfectly aligned with their sound

Speaking to The Rascals they appear impassively blasé, the height of detached cool. After listening to their live performances and recordings thus far their arrogance is clearly justified. With a handful of new tracks raising temperatures and a songbook brimming with perpetually evolving melodies the future looks bright. Adopting a lefty ideology typical of their hometown, a democratic approach has been taken to composing. Disparate ideas and influences are melded to create a finished product incorporating references as polarised as Scott Walker and Queens Of The Stone Age. Joe explains their disdain for restricting oneself to a specific genre: “If you’re just into the heavy stuff, you’re shit, and if you’re just into Scott Walker, the same, you’re completely consumed by their world.”