Fiction

Fiction blend humour with tunes, ice-cold cool and some sort of zing which hasn’t exactly had a language invented for it yet...really quite a fucking exciting band. - Artrocker

Fiction are four doll-faced boys from London making bright, loose pop songs that are perfect for a sunny day...Live, the four boys of Fiction swap around instrumental duties, constantly dancing between a guitar, a bass and two drum kits...Fiction is a wholly aesthetic vision. - Dazed & Confused

South London quartet Fiction pin a majority of their appeal on their drums, attesting, "they are the heart and soul of the band." Second single 'Big Things' tells a far different story though, its lifeblood being a borderline twee keyboard riff that loops like that of The Cure's much underrated 'Six Different Ways'. It's accompanied by some layered, hushed harmonies, a post-funk bassline and, after some time, those essential drums. But it's the keyboard that you'll wake up singing, and Fiction should embrace that - as well as the fact that they sound more like proto Mystery Jets than ever. - Loud & Quiet

Their warm, loose and bright sound, on the Talking Heads-indebted herky-jerky post-punk of ‘Curiosity’ and the Maccabees-by-way-of-XTC romance of ‘Phyllis’, led to the ladies, (Warpaint) (occasionally breaking into a cheer of ‘I LOVE FICTION’), handpicking them for their album tour...If it’s hard to pin down a definite sound, beyond a touch of Yeasayer here, a snatch of Wild Beasts there, that’s not an accident. - NME