Double vision | 18 August 2012

If you were to condense everything that was most quintessentially English about quintessential Englishness — from the green man and morris dancing to Vaughan Williams and The Whitsun Weddings — feed it into a liquidiser, have it remixed by an electronica DJ, and then transformed into the soundtrack of some trendy arthouse film premièred at a festival in Brighton, what you might end up with is something like the work of Grasscut.

I hope that doesn’t sound offputting. It’s quite possible that I’ve completely misrepresented them. For a more accurate assessment, I did try asking one of their two members Marcus O’Dair — who spends his spare time as a music journalist. But sadly he was none the wiser: ‘We’ve been compared to all sorts of Sixties, Seventies, Eighties and Nineties bands, including lots I haven’t heard of. I’m a bit too close to it, to be honest, to form an opinion.’