Pairs

Summer Sweat

Bomb Shop

Cloud Nine [:04:06]	MP3 (320) £1.00
Wo Zhe Yang [:01:15]	MP3 (320) £1.00
Poor Choices [:03:06]	MP3 (320) £1.00
XJ Girl [:01:32]	MP3 (320) £1.00
If It Works, It Works [:01:47]	MP3 (320) £1.00

Bacardi [:01:16]	MP3 (320) £1.00
Five Kuai [:03:06]	MP3 (320) £1.00
Christmas [:00:52]	MP3 (320) £1.00
No Regrets [:02:47]	MP3 (320) £1.00
Chiko [:01:59]	MP3 (320) £1.00
Grandma Pills [:03:29]	MP3 (320) £1.00
Bei Dor Fen [:02:15]	MP3 (320) £1.00
Generation [:01:56]	MP3 (320) £1.00
My Body Is Not A Wonderland [:04:41]	MP3 (320) £1.00

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Shanghai duo Pairs fire out fourteen tracks of visceral punk with producer Yang Haisong on the buttons. The record is high octane throughout, but there's something for (almost) everyone - from the teenage-love-angst lo-fi-emo thrash of "No Regrets" to the noise walls of "My Body Is Not A Wonderland".

Entirely made out of Xiao Zhong (drums/vocals) and F (guitars), Pairs make music that they themselves describe as "awful". But it's not awful. It's amazing.

Check out Pairs' recent DVD for a b...

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"Makes you feel about 14, illegally wasted and in love."
Nick Richardson, Wire