LET’S EAT GRANDMA
The Globe, Cardiff
Thurs 12 Apr
Childhood best friends Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth started creating music in their early teenage years and now, aged 18 and 19, are both halves of Let’s Eat Grandma. An experimental art-pop duo named in reference to a grammatical mnemonic (“let’s eat, Grandma!”), they forged a presence in the Norwich indie scene, featuring at the city’s Sound & Vision Festival in 2014; Lancashire prog-pop artist Kiran Leonard, who gives the pair a run for their money in the precocious stakes, tipped off his record label Transgressive, and they released LEG’s debut album I, Gemini in 2016.
Their music, as showcased on I, Gemini and new single Hot Pink, is experimental art-pop which nods to each part of that descriptor in equal measure, but is not restricted by it. Each track can feel like an eclectic grab-bag of songs condensed into one, weaving from segment to segment: Eat Shiitake Mushrooms tries rapping on for (not as naff as it might have been) size, while Hot Pink might just be their interpretation of EDM.
A band on the up, in their own idiosyncratic way, and now on their first tour of the UK and western Europe. Visiting Cardiff this April courtesy of promoters Swn, expect a band that grasps unlikely lyrical themes and plays with conventions of genre.
Tickets: £11. Info: 07590 471888 (CA)