Puncture Repair Kit - The Sinking of the PRK

  by Tommy Gunnarsson

published: 27 / 8 / 2009

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Review

Paul Heaton (of Housemartins and Beautiful South fame) has described the Puncture Repair Kit as “the best thing to come out of Cambridge since homosexuality”, which is not only a great thing to say, but also quite true. Although, to be honest, I can’t think of a lot of things to come out of Cambridge at all, so how true that is perhaps be left unsaid. Anyway, the Puncture Repair Kit is a six piece from the aforementioned city, and 'The Sinking of the PRK' is their debut EP, released on their very own, self-titled label. The bands MySpace site mentions influences like Belle and Sebastian, the Delgados and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, and I couldn’t have said it better myself. I think they sound quite a bit like the two latter in partuclar, and towards the end of the third and last song on the EP, 'The Death Waltz', they end up sounding like Bearsuit for a while. All in all, this is a very good EP, and I am really looking forward to the supposed forthcoming album!

Track Listing:-

1 Dr Freeman
2 Draws Lines
3 The Death Waltz