"Spangly Lo-Fi innocence like it was made out of egg boxes and yoghurt pots and glued together with alt. rock PVA comes from Shana Tova. Harmonic splendour and pulses of drumming genius ensure many will be bowled over by the Tova” Fly Magazine Nov/Dec 08. Shana Tova are a UK alternative rock trio. Their name means 'a good/sweet year' in Hebrew. The recorded material on the 'Shana Tova' EP exhibits a live energy. The band released their self-titled debut through Viann & Violet (Art & Music) in 2009. Shana Tova ply an angular and furious live show on the alternative stages of art and music: and have so far played alongside the likes of Cursive, Tubelord, Johnny Foreigner, Dinosaur Pile-Up, The Tupolev Ghost and Sunset Cinema Club to name a few. Their sound is fired by an admiration of the erudite and passionate Scottish indie greats; Orange Juice, Delgados, Belle & Sebastian, and the incendiary rasp of U.S. Alternative Rock: Fugazi, Sugar, Thingy and Violent Femmes. The band extend this musical legacy to a largely untapped art audience, by performing alongside Performance Artists, VJs and Poets. The band count artists such as Kandinsky and comic book philosophers such as Jeff LeVine amongst their influences. Review of the 'Shana Tova' EP from The Fly Magazine: "Shana Tova's immediacy on 'Morsels' is unapologetically to the point. However, the lush kaleidoscopic swathes of rolling rhythmical vibrancy provide a bed for Geordie Blake to leap from vocally, like some kind of musical eel. 'Ants' boasts a nuclear winter storm of a chorus while 'Sleech' is an eight year old terminal leper, nagging you with his Christmas list in July - persistant, contagious and yet moving."
