Televise - Outside Out - EP Review

  • 23 May 2005

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Televise - Outside Out - EP Review

Televise
Outside Out EP
Club AC30
Release Date: 23 May 2005
If you’re into distorted guitars, ethereal melodies and space-age choruses you will certainly like Outside Out – the debut EP from London’s 4-piece Televise. This is actually an up-and-coming band, but its singer and guitarist Simon Scott is someone not short of experience, having been a member of both Slowdive and Lowgold. Opening the EP is the title-track, a fast and psychedelic rock ballad, reminiscent of bands such as Spiritualized and early Feeder. ‘Let Me Go Down’ follows, developing slowly and gently, with an instrumental

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Giada Arnone