That's truely a cumbersome band name but who cares when the music is that exciting. After New York City art rockers Lansing-Dreiden which infatuated me in January this is only the second new band I have fallen in love with this year. WFANFC are four lads from Manchester who incorporate at least as many influences in their psychedelic sound as the equally eclectic Lansing-Dreiden from the other side of the Atlantic.

Take for example So from their myspace page. It's a dark and brooding spaced out guitar song including some electronic wizardry in the vein of new Radiohead with a shoegazer vibe à la Pale Saints. Or the heavy, groovy, bass-driven Dead Fingers Talking from the same place which has a baggy sound evoking someone like the New Fast Automatic Daffodils. Innocence from the Blowout site mixes The Orb's Fluffy Clouds with Amon Tobin's beats. Troubled Son from Pitchfork's Infinite Mixtape section is another monster dance track which could have been from a Screamadelica played by The Chemical Brothers.

Altogether great varied stuff and I am rather perplexed that they have neither been mentioned on ILM nor in the mp3 blogs which feed the hype machine.

Their self-titled debut is supposed to come out on melodic on October, 16th.