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The LaFontaines are the most exciting force in music since a bunch of guys in caves figured out that rhythmically banging on stuff and dancing about was fun.
The quintet – Kerr Okan, John Gerard, Darren McCaughey, Jamie Keenan and Iain Findlay – grew up in the gritty reality of contemporary smalltown Scotland but they are about to shake up the music industry and the whole social structure of the UK with their quite astonishing debut album, ‘Class’.
A diverse array of musical influences is mixed and melded together to produce a sound that is characteristically, unmistakably theirs. Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, Drum and Bass.. pretty much everything but country, swirling around the Fonts music machine and emerging as an entirely new beast with a bad attitude, a strong Scottish accent and a healthy dose of rage.
Rapper and Font-in-chief Kerr Okan is understandably thrilled to unleash the first Fonts long player on an unsuspecting world. He said: “Our debut album Class is a culmination of everything we have managed to achieve, everything we have worked on and worked for. A band like this, we are sort of first through the door, there’s never been anything to gauge it against, there’s never been anything like this before.”
It’s often been said that The LaFontaines shouldn’t work – no-one should be able to pull off the insane blend of styles that they do. Yet when you see them play, it’s seamless, it’s natural, and it’s mind-blowing.