The UK’s premier tastemaker label MOSHI MOSHI are launching an innovative new subscription service.

Available from May 1st – in time for MOSHI100 on May 24: the Hot Club De Paris EP – the label offers subscribers a year’s worth of Moshi Moshi releases for the bargain price of £25. This includes both the label’s Singles Club releases and album tracks.

Here’s how it works:  On the Friday before the official release date subscribers will receive an email with a link to their personal page from which they can download the latest tracks.

Drawing their inspiration from Willy Wonka, Moshi Moshi will celebrate their 100th release with their take on Wonka’s Golden Ticket concept.  They’ll be slipping five gold vinyl discs into regular releases entitling each winner to a lifetime membership of the Moshi Moshi subscription service. The gold vinyl discs will be distributed through Moshi Moshi’s normal channels so they’ll appear randomly in stores around the country.

Now in their 12th year and responsible for launching the careers of Hot Chip, Florence And The Machine and Friendly Fires, Moshi Moshi continue to work with an impressive roll call of wildly diverse and yet consistently high quality and inventive new artists.  This year sees releases from The Drums, James Yuill, Slow Club, The Wave Pictures, Summer Camp, the cocknbullkid, Hot Club de Paris, Hot City, Au Revoir Simone, Casiokids and Still Flyin’.

Genre: Punk

Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/hotclubdeparis

Official Website: http://hotclubdeparis.com

Recommended Track: Found Sleeping

Recommended Album: Drop It Till It Pops

Our Rating:

Hot Club De Paris are natives of Liverpool, with their scouse tongues unambiguously wrapping round their punk-influenced jollies. The band formed in 2004 from a mixture of bands already frequenting the Liverpool music scene, notably from Down and Outs and Victor FME. Divulging in their passion for American punk, math-rock and experimental indie, their bonds were beginning to weave the Hot Club De Paris sound.

In 2005 they were signed by Moshi Moshi Records and saw slots to support Jamie T, Maximo Park and more notably The Who cross their inaugural music internships. On the back of this they also impressed at SXSW in 2007. Similarities to bands like The Futureheads and The Coral were obviously thrown their way. However, the more comical reference that they has hampered their rise are that they are merely barber-shop cappella’s with instruments remit through reviews.

Their most obvious/signature song is ‘Shipwrecked’ a track from their debut disc, an aquatic skulduggery of a mashed-up chaotic filled bombardment. In their first album they covered topics from work-angst to the hectic seas. This album follows the same youthful mock-ups with catchy indie-pop hooks aplenty. However this release seems to have more substance to its tunes.

‘Live At The Dead Lake’ contains the novelty ‘The Anchor’ akin to Art Brut’s early sound. ‘Call Me Demolition Man’ is a typical inept jaunty sea shanty musical expedition, with an afrobeat guitar lay-down. ‘Found Sleeping’ follows suit to all the rest, lyrically below par. Progression is something to strive towards, HCDP are drowning at the moment in a sea of unauthentic scouse swagger.