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Introducing: Childcare

• 15th Sep 2014

A meaty new single from Childcare was enough to pique our interest in this one – check out ‘Flush’ for yourself below. His debut EP of the same name is released through Best Laid Plans Records on 27th October

Childcare is the brainchild of London-based musician Ed Cares and latest single ‘Flush’ is a rolling rock groove punctuated with 8-bit bleeps, coming on like a thinking man’s Kasabian (sorry Kasabian fans…actually…we’re not) spliced with Gorillaz.

Previous single ‘Gotta Wait’ showed a more raucous Graham Coxon punk side to his material and, get this, Cares records most of his music whilst working as a nanny, fitting in time between the school runs and roadtesting much of his material on the three children he looks after.

“I had no pop or rock references in the house when I was growing up” he explains of his influences “So I didn’t buy anything non-embarrassing until my teens, and then I started getting into pop punk and ska, then the Ramones and the Clash, punk bands of the 90s and early noughties like NOFX and Capdown, and then the Hives, the Strokes and Jack White.”