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Whenever Shopping are asked whether they’re a political band, they always default to talking about dancing. It's not hard to see why they'd want to avoid the political umbrella: when a British band cops to having political motivations, their inability to overhaul the system/write "Ghost Town" Part Two is usually held up as a sign of their failure-in the . There’s no shortage of academic texts citing the radical nature of movement, but the trio’s second album, Why Choose, is blissfully direct and free of added intellectual ballast. When so much modern discourse is a teetering layer cake of opinions, it’s bliss to hear Rachel Aggs celebrate idleness in one breath-over the awkward twangs of "Time Wasted"-and then demand urgency on "Why Wait"’s anxious, accelerated disco hi-hats. As she puts it in the latter, "Why choose when I just want it both ways?/ When I could just take it all?/ I wanna do it my wa.

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The last song on Why Choose has Shopping playing nervous post-punk, with the only words being shouted numbers counting to five. These shouts drive the music through its individual passages, to the inevitable conclusion, where they just stop. Shopping’s music is always moving forward, always focused on reaching the breaking point, of which only happens at the end of the song, when it chooses to give out. 2013’s debut Consumer Complaints was sprightly and defiant in its raw post-punk three-piece rhythms, jumping and dancing, quietly angry. On Why Choose, Shopping evolve their sound with synths,.

Consumer Guide Album. Shopping: Why Choose? I guess you could say their only CD is even suppler-you can tell they've been woodshedding. Their distinction between time wasted, which is yours, and time lost, which the bad guys have stolen from you, qualifies "Time Wasted" as a welcome apercu from a band who have to keep explaining they're not really political because their fan base misses the Gang of Four even more after hearing 2015's What Happens Next

Why Choose by Shopping, released 02 October 2015 1. Wind Up 2. Take It Outside 3. Straight Lines 4. Time Wasted 5. Say It Once 6. Passing Through 7. Why Wait 8. Private Party 9. Sinking Feeling 10. I Have Decided 11. Knocking 12. 12345 The band teams up again with Jamie Grier, who mixed and mastered their first LP, this time placing Grier in the recording chair at Glasgow’s Green Door Studios, while mastering duties fall to Alan Douches (Japandroids, We Were Promised Jetpacks). All three band members lend their voices to Why Choose, pushing and pulling between Aggs’ knife hilt yelps and drummer Andrew Milk’s steadied responses, giving heft to the anxious energy of tracks like Straight Lines and brevity to the detached cool of Passing Through and Private Party. The band has shown unflagging support for local indie shops in their native UK, delivering (and quickly selling out of) their debut personally in shops all over London. They’ve recently completed tours with Merchandise and fellow UK post-punk unit Golden Teacher.

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Why Wait 08. Private Party 09. 12345. Shopping - Unexpected Item (2017). Shopping - The Official Body (2018). Shopping - Straight Lines (2015). Shopping - Consumer Complaints (2014). Synthpop, Futurepop, Electropop, Minimal Wave, Minimal Synth, Synthwave. Gothic, Darkwave, Gothic Synth, Ethereal.

If the personal is inherently political, then Shopping are doing exactly what’s expected of them: writing songs that reflect the world at large through a microscope lens. There are no outright lyrical screeds, there is no diplomatic statement of intent. Billy Easter, Rachel Aggs, and Andrew Milk just want to make songs with dizzying riffs and a post-punk rhythm section that makes people want to dance