MULTIPISTAS #5

While there are plenty of post-punk and orchestral art rock bands vying for attention, there is a searing originality that marks Flip Top Head apart. The six-piece group from Brighton showcase the full range of their influences on their debut EP ‘Up Like A Weather Balloon’...

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MULTIPISTAS #4

The band tells me what represents “Britainicana”: The La’s, Johnny Roadhouse, Violent Femmes, Chappell Roan, and Back to the Future. It feels limitless. “We grew up smothered by American media – films, TV, all of it,” Murphy explains. “Like with everything, when you’re a kid, you seek to emulate it. But you live in rural north-west England. You’re not on the Sunset Strip, or Manhattan,” he continues, earning chuckles in agreement.

Rather than reject those borrowed influences, they transmute them by reimagining Americana through the British DIY tradition that they know while embracing the contradiction that comes with it. This intention was set from the very start when they played their very first gig as Westside Cowboy in a coffee shop, inspired by their interpretation of early British rock n roll shows: accessible and fuelled by a caffeinated buzz, while being just scuzzy enough to also mirror a punk rock energy.


Their debut single “I’ve Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You)” possesses that timelessness and fluidity, a fidgety rush of fuzz and feeling that’s equal parts Pixies, Pavement, and 1960s rock n roll.