New Fonda 500 album 'Je m'appelle stereo' out Monday 30th June.

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'Loud, proud and incredibly sexy, Hull’s Fonda 500 are back with another pure pop explosion for the ears. ‘Je M’appele Stereo’ finds fuel from past indie creations to produce a record which sounds like as if Super Furry Animals have eaten too many sherbet dib dabs and have been left alone with Casio keyboards and a kiddie drum set.

From the high pitched, electronically altered, juddering vocals of ‘I Love Stereo, Stereo’s Good For Me’ with its canned beats and funky bass rhythms to the gentle strum of guitars on ‘Everything Is Connected’ mixed in with bouncing harpsichords and teach-yourself-French samples, in the style of The Books, this album is quirky and fun.

Messy like Stereolab on speed, Fonda 500’s off-tune electric guitars unexpectedly morph into loose latin rhythms leaving you with the impression that band have spent too much time watching hyperactive early-morning cartoons.

Nothing on here begs to be taken seriously, just track after track of over energetic, whimsical music wildly careering from pumping electro beats, to rippling glockenspiels doubling back through bright guitar riffs and over enthusiastic beat boxing before finally coming to an exhausted stop with the aptly named lullaby ‘…And Sleep.’

‘Je M’appelle Stereo’ is packed with exuberance and enthusiasm and the more you listen, the more you think that the group’s main aim was to get as many simple ideas committed to tape as messily as possible. Wonderful stuff!'
says Charlotte Otter of new-noise.net, you figure out what you think about it.

I think it's absolutely marvellous. A totally refreshing change that balances on the right side of ridiculous.
Well done Fonda 500! and thankyou!