Family Valued

Got in from work late last night with a head full of cold, so didn't get the chance to see The Chapman Family in Shrewsbury as planned. Your coughing correspondent is hoping to catch up with their live show soon, though, feverish with anticipation after hearing the brilliant demo 'Sound Of The Radio' on their MySpace page. The Stockton-on-Tees outfit are at pains to insist they're not a cult, but what they are is purveyors of a dark, twisted, pulverising guitar sound, not unlike Interpol injected with a fierce, insistent horniness. Family fun has never before sounded so troubling and loaded with equal measures of threat and promise.