Electrifying Essex-based octet (there's eight of them, y'know) DINGUS KHAN, sometimes referred to as Blur-meets-Slipknot, release their debut album, "Support Mistley Swans", via fierce panda. The Back Story: "Rising like a behometh from the sludge of the Stour Estuary, Dingus Khan are exactly what you'd imagine a band with a name like Dingus Khan to be. They consist of three drummers to keep your heart beating. Three bass players to keep your feet tapping. A singing guitarist to melt young girls' hearts. And an electric ukelele demon just to keep you on your toes. Let Dingus Khan play their rock and roll music my boy, and let them play it Hard and Fast. Then Slow and Steady. Then Hard and Fast." So started the press release for DINGUS KHAN's searingly manic debut single, "Knifey Spoony", which was released on fierce panda sister label Label Fandango back in March of this year. It was so perfect we used it again on the press release for the follow-up single, the epic whistlefest that was "Made A List" (Giant Haystacks Records, July). And so immaculately does it still encapsulate the sixteen-legged groove machinery of DINGUS KHAN it may as well fill a large chunk of this, the press release for their debut album entitled "Support Mistley Swans". The East Of Englandshire runs through the DINGUS KHAN veins like so many top quality narcotics: they come from Manningtree, on the very northern tip of Essex, and indeed next door to Mistley, where the famous Mistley swans do their misty-eyed swanning; in spite of those Essex roots they have been heartily embraced by neighbours BBC Suffolk, who fast-tracked the band onto the Latitude bill in the summer; they happily ply their trade in venues like the Grinning Rat in Ipswich; and on October 10th they have been invited to support The Fall and The Undertones at Norwich Epic, which is itself a benefit gig for the John Peel Centre Of Creative Arts in Stowmarket. It's a good choice, too: if John Peel were around today he would surely embrace DINGUS KHAN to his random musical bosom and never let them go, not least because when fully armed Dingus Khan number eight (that's E.I.G.H.T), including Ben Brown (lead vocals / guitar), Josh Court (electric ukelele), Tom Armstrong (bass), Adam Toms (bass), Alex Dunne (bass). Nick Daldry (drums), Paul Miller (percussion) and Gareth Burney (percussion). Apparently they have issues with turning down puppy-eyed musicians. Or as DINGUS KHAN have put it themselves on several press releases in the past: "There is a new exciting music being made, with subtle harmonies and fierce grinding dischords, A music so powerful that it would drive us mad if only our ears were tuned to the sound of it." Record Label: Fierce Panda Style: Independent