If ever a band lived up to it’s name it’s The Anomalies; undoubtedly a true deviation from the norm and incredibly difficult to classify, yet with a set of genre defying tunes as good as they have it’s impossible not to love them.

The band is made up of the indie talent of Sam (AKA Goldseal), the rap talent of Mouthmaster Murf and the DJ talents of DJ Mayhem. Friends since their Hereford schooldays, they have been making music for over three years now and the hard work is paying off big time with a major UK tour this month, an album coming soon and plenty of Radio One airplay showing just how much potential these lads have. “It is always a hobby until you start getting paid for it, it was like that until last year when we got a bit of radio play and it all started kicking off a bit more,” explains Sam, “As time has gone by it’s really changed and there is a different way we approach it now.”

Musically they are a mish mash of styles from hip-hop to dance and indie and it works superbly well. “You just have to listen to us (to understand), it’s hard to describe, you could call it indie hip-hop but there are elements of a lot of different things in there. If you don’t water things down it can only be a good thing really,” says Sam, and Murf agrees: “There are lots of people we listen to who we think are absolute geniuses, we listen to everything from Hot Chip to Fatboy Slim to some really old funk and hip-hop stuff. The nature of the way music is now everyone has stopped paying for music, people’s tastes are far more diverse now. When I was younger you would only be in to one type of music because you could only afford one type, I think everyone is so much more well educated on music as a whole you get more bands combining a few.”

New single ‘Kid Riot’ is a prime example. Sam sings the engaging and lyrically astute chorus before Murf brings structured chaos with an excellent piece of rapping over a superb beat that should go down well at the live shows. “It is about things such as fear but it’s a very happy and upbeat tune, it’s about a lot of the problems we have at the moment though it’s trying not to be too preachy because we haven’t got the answers but when we looked back it had more relevance than we first realised,” says Murf.

The band have a UK tour throughout September and are well worth seeing as the band grows to include a DJ, bass player, drummer and beat-boxer to create a real sense of the how good the band can be. Sam tells us: “It can sound weird when people say that they are a ‘live band’ but I think, in our case that definitely applies. When we play live it’s all about the show, there isn’t much shoe gazing, and it’s something exciting and really good to watch.” A band well worth catching before their popularity soars, just make sure you leave your pigeon hole at the door.

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