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Hey, remember when MTV actually played music videos? Remember "Amp", which escorted us into the wee hours of darkness, playing anything loosely classified as club, dub, dance, disco, house, techno, all that good shit? Fresh as it sounds in 2006, something tells me Manchester-based Working for a Nuclear Free City would have fit right in back then too.

They'd probably have a video with sleek cars speeding through tunnels at night, plenty of tracking shots of club corridors, femme fatales, mixed drinks, fog machines, flashing lights, faceless revelers, and everything in constant motion. Maybe Chris Cunningham would have directed it, or Mark Romanek, or Dom & Nic. And guess what? It would've politely kicked the club-worn arses of everything else on the program that night.

With "Troubled Son", off their self-titled Melodic Records debut, the band delivers a propulsive, hallucinogenic foray into the urban night hours. The melodic seesawing over that chugging rhythm will surely incite gyrations, while the sung-spoken vocal lead keeps things cosmopolitan and blissed-out and backing vocals beckon from somewhere beyond the pale. The only shortcoming: It's over way too soon, so you might just want to include it on yr mixtape twice.

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#0042 > Working for a Nuclear Free City: "Troubled Son"
[from Working for a Nuclear Free City; Melodic Records]
Info: [Working for a Nuclear Free City] | [MySpace] | [Melodic]

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// Previously on The Infinite Mixtape:
#0041: Fujiya & Miyagi: "Collarbone"
#0040: Malajube: "La Monogamie"
#0039: The Polyphonic Spree: "Sonic Bloom"
#0038: Oxford Collapse: "Please Visit Your National Parks"
#0037: Peter Bjorn & John: "Young Folks [ft. Victoria Bergsman]"
#0036: Flying Canyon: "In the Reflection"
#0035: Califone: "The Orchids"
#0000: All Previous Infinite Mixtape Entries