Article

Hot Press

13 Apr 2000

Stoat, also in early days, don't take themselves at all seriously ... which is nice. Fronted by Dave Grohl's doppelganger on bass (who provides hilarious a capella balladeering during a string-change) - and Eamonn Carr's misfit younger brother (possibly) on guitar, they are a satisfyingly unfashionable mix of the projectile-a-billy messiness of the Violent Femmes, crossed with the dayjob-as-a-civil-servant nerdiness of They Might Be Giants.

[Stoat review-of-review: Too much time spent describing how we look ... and, goddam it, I don't look like Dave Grohl. What the hell does projectile-a-billy mean? 6 out of 10]