This week, you will mostly be wearing fetching Fred Perry polo shirts, tight-fitting turn-up jeans, sporting a distinguished modcut, and generally looking exceedingly dapper; that’s men, women, children, and pets alike. The reason? Cultured Vultures Single of the Week, of course – nothing shapes your week like our designated single for it.
The single in question? ‘4AM’, the latest track from Watford four-piece The Spitfires, and the newest taster of their upcoming debut album, Response. With a nod to their forefathers in mod, and of course the modfather himself, ‘4AM’ is a potently emotive and searingly melodic cut, ruminating on modern life right down to its more mundane elements, packaged in a classically British anthemic manner, with an undercurrent of swagger.
Mod culture may have taken the mod target from the wings of the Royal Air Force’s roundel, notably prominent on the pride of British skies, the Supermarine Spitifire, but these Watford upstarts only went and took the name of that pride itself. That takes gusto. Having already started to garner some solid acclaim with early sneaks of their debut, and the tracks they’ve released so far, The Spitfires have even started earn plaudits from their own influences and heroes, in the shape of Paul Weller and The Specials, who have both personally invited them out on tour.
Speaking of those early debut indications, and the abundant song-based evidence already out there, it would seem The Spitfires are likely to be really taking off soon. I now immediately apologise for that truly, truly terrible aviation aligned humour. I won’t do it again, I promise. Though seriously, The Spitfires are already road tested, they’ve got the perfect formula to get old-school mods, and new-school modlings alike excited about them, and they’ve also got the melodic chops and picturesque kitchen sink drama in their lyrics to bring plenty more than that to their formative fan base. Including you. Yeah, you.
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