Censored

Published: July 20, 2006, 2:39 pm

There are still a few bands breaking through who are heavily influenced by the Rhythm and Blues scene and Censored are one of them. This trio of teenagers are making 60's hip pop spliced together with shades of Bitpop. Censored seemed to be able to flick between the two periods like a light switch, this could be the beauty of using two vocalists. On track You Eyes Are Made Of Gold, it incorporates a Bluetones style melody; while on All You Gotta Do Is Ask the mood has turned. The beat is Detours esque Marquee club and any hipster could be pogoing around the dancefloor to this beauty.This is what happend when i conducted an interview with Censored this week !1) With a name like Censored, do you feel yourselves are being suppressed by society and you are bursting to get out ?Matt: well yes that is the intellectual way of looking at our name and in that way, no we don't agree with a lot of Censorship, especially in art and musicChris: but originally it was just because it was annoying to

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