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Posted: 10/7/2011
cottish exports The Cinematics sound like Franz Ferdinand at a midnight showing of Donnie Darko. Stop and go guitars over red velvet ambience and eyeliner nobody does dark-wave melodrama like the Scottish. Made up of Scott Rinning, Ross Bonney, Ramsay Miller and Adam Goemans, The Cinematics were so instantly unmissable that indie imprint TVT snapped them up at first sight and hired Stephen Hague (New Order, Blur, Pet Shop Boys) to produce their first album, A Strange Education. We were so wowed at first sight that, not only did we put them in the Freshmen Five, we also bandnapped bassist Adam Goemans and strapped him into the Hot Seat until he talked. He had plenty to say. Look