Artist: Little Man Tate Genre(s):
Indie
Rock
Discography:
About What You Know Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Man I Hate Your Band Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Inexplicably taking their appoint from a saccharine 1991 flick nigh a baby portent leading Jodie Foster, Little Man Tate is a scrappy indie careen band from Sheffield, England. Like their Yorkshire compatriots the Arctic Monkeys, Little Man Tate offers a veddy veddy British ingest on guitar pop. But where the Arctic Monkeys' inspiration lies principally in the Television Personalities (so much so that in 2006 a rumor flew about the Internet that the TVPs' Daniel Treacy was in fact the band's privy ballad maker) and their brand of fractured post-punk, Little Man Tate shares more in common with Blur, the Dentists, and other devotees of the Kinks' blend of tricky tunes and playful lyrics about daily British animation. Singer and rhythm method guitar player Jon Windle, lead guitar player Edward "Maz" Marriot, bassist Ben Surtees, and drummer Dan Fields earlier formed under the list Carousel Moon in 2003, briefly exit through and through the name calling the Moon and Lazy Eye ahead settling on Little Man Tate in 2005. Little Man Tate released their debut single, "The Agent," in March 2006 on their own Yellow Van label. After a irregular self-released single, "What? What You Got," hit the take down reaches of the U.K. Top 40 graph in May of that year, Little Man Tate gestural to V2 Records. V2 released trey more than singles -- "Theater Party at Boothy's," "World, I Hate Your Band," and "Aphrodisiac in Latin" -- with increasing chart success each time, earlier Little Man Tate's debut record album,
About What You Know, was released in February 2007.
