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London-based indie five-tet seeking old ways to make nice songs about love and lost time. 

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Neither climate catastrophe, nor scaffolded supermarket, Business As Usual are a band with questions to answer: who’s really the frontman though? How does Jonny make those sounds with the guitar? If your latest track doesn’t include the ecstatic rattle of a vibraslap, then does it really slap?

To forge the sound, dual songwriters Joseph Gafton and Thomas Vincent tread a light path through some of their favourite genres – indie rock, britpop, French disco, electronic folk, even funk – picking up treats along the way to share at the end of a rainy day. Fitting together thoughtful lyric with catchy melody, they flit between musings on failed relationships or the unstoppable passage of time and well-polished hooks and searing solos.

Only the joyous and formidable efforts of the two Marks – Kilbey (bass) and Meyrick (drums) – can impress the realities of time and rhythm onto the unruly songsmiths and their obnoxious tendency to twist tempo and slip an extra beat into a phrase. Meanwhile, Jonny Senior suffuses ethereal guitar over the din or picks at understated, singing arpeggios.

In their latest release produced by Stefan Antoinette, Vincent’s striking vocal hook on Take Me Apart embraces triumph and turmoil at once, trying to make sense of the leftovers. While Gafton’s drifting anti-chorus in restless track Forever gives way to a cathartic instrumental finale. 

Or delve into the back-catalogue to find gentle gems to rest your head to: from the sorrowful plucked acoustic on Home to nostalgia-drenched Disney cover Love Goes On. 

Carefully crafted recordings abound online in all the usual spots, but it’s on the London stage surrounded by a crowd of warm hearts, where this unsigned band really glisten. Keep a close eye if you want to catch them though, after all, their’s is a labour of love – snatched moments between what breads the table. But never idle, and maybe one day there’ll be another way.