#pull in emergency

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As Stereogum notes, this sly little number by The History of Apple Pie marks another Brits band channeling that late '80s American lo-fi indie rock sound. Unsurprisingly, there's some major Pavement-love going on in this band.

This track has got a perfect laid-back, scuzzy guitar riffs backed by the effortless female harmonies. I'm a sucker for this sound. It feels perfectly British in origin: trying to suffer through and find a sparkle of hope in the muck.

Stereogum mentions that this Brit college rock revivalist sound is currently repped by Yuck and The History of Apple Pie. The comparisons to Yuck are completely fair. Heck, in this interview, one of the band members cheekily admits to being internet friends with them. But there was one band that released their album in September 2010 that just slightly predated them -- Pull In Emergency.

REALLY I just want an opportunity to say that their self-titled CD is pretty great. A group of histrionic underagers with a great sense of melody, a soulful and wailing female singer, and a teen's love of an indie rock sound made before they were even born. 

If you're a vinyl freak like myself then you can order a 7" at Rough Trade Recs.

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Pull In Emergency - "Everything Is The Same"

Everything has changed, and it's not good.

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i heard this song in vans about 2 months ago. this month i remembered the lyrics and googled it. it turned out to be a song buy a british band who recently split up. i JUST found the mp3 to this song. its not even on youtube. Pull in emergency <3

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I friggin' love Pull In Emergency, but then again, I was almost pre-determined to love them. 

I love '90s indie rock, I love yowling-to-the-heavens Brit-rock (re: Los Campesinos!, Johnny Foreigner) and I love a fierce frontwoman. Pull In Emergency combines these three things, with surprisingly good songwriting (they're teens, so, it's a little bit much at times) and simply brilliant, infectious instrumentation. 

These kids -- who were, as far as I can tell, in their last year of high school currently -- make some great late-night pining music. These precocious youngsters love them some late-'80s, early-'90s indie rock too, as if the riffs didn't betray their influences. I love the little solo work on "Everything's Gonna Change" (and it sounds even better on their album!)

Despite their age, they sound like they've been playing together forever. Maybe they're precocious, maybe they're just older than their years indicate, but whatever the reason: they're really fucking good. And while I have yet to find their self-titled LP on vinyl, I do hope that they continue making music because Pull In Emergency is a great first taste of a band that could continue to make utterly brilliant music. 

That is, if they pass their finals. 

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Pull In Emergency -- 15 Years (link leads to a breakdown of the song by lead vocalist Alice Barker)

I absolutely love these kids. And they are kids for a little bit yet! Pull In Emergency are a group of British teens whose core trio have been playing for eight or nine years together — starting at ages 9 through 11.

That's why they manage to have such youthful intensity, but none of that typical youthful overextension and overwroughtness. Alice Barker's howling vocals are emotive and self-assured, and the brilliant six-piece's obvious love of early '90s indie rock (which is so fucking precociously cute) means that the music just sounds way older than what you'd expect the fresh faced group could produce. 

That's why they're so rad. Their self-titled debut is utterly, utterly engaging and infinitely listenable. It's awful to say, but it's sadly true: you really wouldn't expect that a band as assured and sonically mature like Pull In Emergency are still trying to pass high school.

But it's true. And it only adds to their impressive music-making ability.