Ice Creeeaaam! Ice Cream Man!

It is really funny what people try and pass off as power pop these days. I'm sure Alex Chilton would have a fit if he heard some of this rubbish.

But he wouldn't start convulsing in anger at the sound of this band.

Something like Icecream Hands would fit right in next to Cheap Trick and Big Star et al and hold its own quite easily. Major chords are the order of the day for these guys. My year 12 music teacher always said major chords sounded happy. No argument there.Their songs possess vocal harmonies that hold each other close, releasing and reacquainting at the right moment. This Melbourne band have been together for over a decade, yet they are filled with the energy and optimism of a precocious bunch of newcomers.

Icecream Hands fill me with the joy of a summer afternoon. The smell 40 degree intensity sun baking vinyl seats as a warm wind swirls through the windows. The sound of tyres dueling with tarmac. The feeling of glare forcing your eyes to squint. Sigh, I wish it wasn't August

Iccream Hands have a new EP 'Come Along', and its out September 10. And it's very good.