Fine China

When The World Sings (Tooth & Nail)
by Scott Hefflon

Fine China is electronic pop much like producer and labelmate Ronnie Martin’s Joy Electric. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, that’s your loss. Sweet and ’80s naive (dingy and cute when upbeat, melancholy and mopey when slow), based on classics like The Smiths, The Cure, Tears for Fears, Pet Shop Boys and Suede instead of Chemical Brothers and Prodigy, it’s good to see indie kids choosing a route other than nü metal, freshly-scrubbed “punk,” or emo’s surface-skimming of every genre that’s ever existed.
(PO Box 12698 Seattle, WA 98111)