Rhodri Marsden called his new musical thing 'The Free French', in a vain attempt to pretend that it was a real band. Few people fell for it so he drafted in members of Gag, Scaramanga 6, Spearmint & Pinhead Nation to plump up his scratchy homegrown sound.

Someone said that the voice sounded like that bloke from XTC (but in a good way) with a bit of Prefab Sprout and Wire mixed in - they were all probably right. We'd call it real pop music with a bass, a musical saw, a broken synth, a computer, a bassoon, and a scratched-to-fuck Telecaster.
 

» Running on Batteries (2.28)
Wired, spiky, driving, no-nonsense thing, about the hilarious charade of keeping a sexual relationship interesting.
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» A Brief High, A Deep Sigh (2.00)
album out-take, spot the sample and sue if you dare. A brief vignette, easily downloadable and easily rememberable.
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» Swigging Echinacea (3.07)
A brand new, slow building story of taking useless herbal remedies to stave off a cold and go on a date. And at the string laden climax: the date was pointless anyway.
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