Our first release on Sheffield Phonographic Corporation!
We've our first release through Thee SPC as one side of a split 7" single, featuring our song "Dancing". The other side of the single features the excellent Sheffield band Slow Down Tallahassee..
"Standard Fare offer a big pop tune with heartbreaking lyrics and more ideas than most bands can muster in an entire LP in just one song. Best new band of the year thus far? I think so." Indie MP3
" 'Dancing' makes the heart skip a beat like the finest of Magnetic Fields songs. Which is about as good as it gets." Sounds XP
"’Dancing’ is a gorgeously drizzled bitter sweet slice of mel-pop, all at once hurt, bruised and possessed of a resigned recoiling shyness that aside being disturbingly touching is tempered by a tenderly hollowed and wintry melodic underpin that to our mind sounds like Decoration imparting their own unique appreciation of an early career Go Betweens." Losing Today
"Like many an SPC band Standard Fare they belie their DIY qualities through the power of simple melodies, guileless vocals, scab picking lyrics and a great deal of joie de vivre." Sweeping The Nation
"Gently upbeat in its grief, the simple indie loveliness of ‘Dancing’ provides the perfect foil to Slow Down Tallahassee's side and puts a lid on this best of split personalities." Sandman Magazine
"I love Standard Fare for many reasons: the crackling female vocals; the way each song seems as though it's about to fall apart before it roars off into the stratosphere again; the fact that, in the days of ridiculous band names, they have a quite self-effacing one" A Layer Of Chips
"'Dancing’ is very catchy, tuneful and offers up something more than the some of its parts." Forge Today
"Standard Fare add urgency and passion ‘Dancing’ and vocalist Emma’s raw but endearing words." Tasty Fanzine
" ‘Dancing’. The vocals are decent, like Debbie Harry if she’d fronted some 4AD band in the nineties. Ace!" Norman Record
"Brilliant, brand new demo" - Huw Stephens - Radio 1 - In new music we trust... (9.1.08)
Originating from the icey cold loft of a big old house in a small town and then relocating to a small cottage out in the unknown hills of the countryside, Standard Fare have now discovered the luxuries of rehearsal rooms and with that discovery, a whole different world outside of the Buxton bubble!
So with the bright lights pulling them towards the 'big big city', well that and all moving in different directions, the band are now based in Sheffield (where the one way systems +permanent road works confuse the hell out of their little country minds!).
shit! a new york show?! next time you're in the area you should let us know-- we could've set up a show in boston! in the meantime, i'm gonna try to get to nyc for one of those gigs! safe travels!
Cheers for the add - I like your sounds, hope you like mine too:)! Good luck & all the best from Paul:)! (Emma in Poland, Emma in New York - she sure gets around:)!
Hey! Great to play with you guys in York! And Emma, yes it was fun drinking afterward!! I got back to London safe but with quite a hangover. Your songs are great on here too and for that I am pleased! Oooh, I'm going to message you all the stuff I was going on and on about! Awesome to meet you! Steve xx
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