New Video: Succulents - Underdog
Whatever genre of music we may gravitate towards in the alternative realm, there's one thing we all share; We're all on the outside looking in at popular culture. Sure we sometimes dip our toes in to see if its less turgid and exasperating as it always has been; occasionally the whole foot stays there for a good 14 minutes without any sign of minor infection. Ultimately however, it all gets a bit much and that comforting feeling of kicking against the pricks re-emerges with only minimal guilt attached. You can see it as being the miserable outsider like some sort of Albert Camus novel, but another - perhaps more positive - spin would be to place yourself in the mindset of the plucky underdog. Now I don't know what their thoughts on French existentialist thinkers are, but Succulents from Manchester have just released their debut single conveniently titled 'Underdog', which fits quite nicely with the first 100 odd words of this review. It's almost as if it...
