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Alcopop! Records’ London-based collective have shared new single ‘Michael Phelps’, an ode to the most decorated Olympian of all time…
Opening with stop-start wonky guitar riffs that come across like David Byrne fronting Squid, the experimental art pop track demands you ‘Teach your children to swim, because one day Michael Phelps will be king’ – and it’s hard to argue. Later on in the song – after a few delightful diversions into completely different genres – there’s another request to ‘Wear your Grade 7 badges with pride’ before the melodic hooks come back with the band encouraging a singalong of ‘I wanna swim all day, I wanna swim all night’.
