Qiet are one of those wonderful bands that defy description; that leave PR folk, journalists, and bloggers scratching around, somewhat hopelessly, for those default descriptors, labels, genres and influences that we all love to place on a band to make our own lives easier.

Is it dance music, indie music, pop music, traditional, contemporary? Is it influenced by Bowie, Talking Heads, Devotchka, the B52s? Are those echoes of vaudeville, modern street theatre, classical, the middle east, sea shanties?

Of course, the truth is that none of this really matters one iota, because Qiet play their own music, and it is mighty fine too. Not for them the path of least resistance and paint-by-numbers ‘originality’. Instead it is music with a vision and a purpose – music to dance to (should the mood take you), but equally it is intelligent, literary music that you can listen to (should the mood take you).

The result is their outstanding new long player, Pet Driftwood and we have a first taste in the shape of The Indie Song. A song that, for all its’ catchiness, is a caustic parody of the current state of the indie genre where the “two chord songs with a lazy strum” are “tried and true marketing for the numb”.

We couldn’t have put it better ourselves. To create a toe tapper while mocking with supreme incisiveness is a special talent.

Pet Driftwood will be released in February. Enjoy.

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