Spang Sisters - Welcome inside the glittery minds of the self-professed sleazy five-piece

Spang Sisters are a five-piece band from London producing dreamy-pop music that illustrates the feeling of lying on a bed full of roses. Prepare to fall into a trance and enter a dream world with their brand-new album Boys, B-sides & Rarities.

There's Rachi (25), invalide, snapped Achilles, Jules (25), aloof, Bulgarian scabies (past), Albert (23), burgeoning, sciatica. Frank (23), depraved, diligently unkempt, Ali (24), desperate, psoriasis and Will (23), stoic, lacking significant Ailment. Their words, not ours. We spoke to the boys to find out all about their mystical & magical sound.

Like butter wouldn't melt: (L-R) Ali, Will, Albert, Rachid, Frank

How did you all get together?

Under moonkissed eaves our glances met,

For a moment then no thing to fret --

An eye’s light stole, nay vicious mole,

The band of Spang was beget.

Where did the name Spang Sisters come from?

The name train is still rolling, it never stops. We have gone through a plethora of ultimately dissatisfying nomenclature. For the present, we spang. But take heed - your true name is not necessarily your given name. However, it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.

Biggest influences?

Eugene McDaniels, Tupac Shakur, G.G. Allin, Lewis Carroll, Daniel Johnson.

What sets you apart from others in the industry?

The industry sets itself apart from us, speaking in the broadest terms. To be more precise, the ‘swaddling bands’ of the music industry are a bind to the foundation of artist identity and divine inspiration. To sulk upon the putrefying breast of industrial homogeny is the infant sorrow.

If someone were to listen to you for the first time, what song of yours would you recommend they start with?

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. Of that decision, I deprive no man. But just avoid tracks 2, 3 and 6 on our new release.

Where did the inspiration for the 'BOYS' video come from?

We needed something through which to pay due heed to the exigencies of contemporary output. We were poached by some dear friends across the pond who drew inspiration from Jim Jarmusch’s Night On Earth. We left the creative process of the video entirely up to the incredibly capable hands of the director, Rosalie Charrier. I like to think of it as a lost eyelash, shod to the gasp of time.

Biggest achievement to date?

This interview.

(We're flattered, boys.)

Favourite gig you’ve ever played?

It is always a pleasure to coop oneself within the dripping walls of the Brixton Windmill. Lost, naked, alone and together, we lost(/found?) ourselves to the id.

Doing what they do best: the boys performing at Off The Cuff

Where do you see the band in five years time?

The way one ought to go depends a great deal on where one wants to get to. There are many divergent roads in this yellow wood, but for now for us it’s more a meandering frolic in the halcyon fields than any king of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels clear cut, clean-shaven A-road to Golgotha. We’ll take it as it comes.

Listen to the guys' EP Boys, B-sides & Rarities here on Spotify and to find our more about them, visit their official Facebook page here.