Denim has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 30 September 2014. Denim's music has been featured on 12 episodes.

Fat analogue synth sounds, bravura and posturing, pastiche and parody - musical and textual - and a heavy dollop of gloopy mid-seventies pop-rock are the hallmarks of the Denim sound.

Denim were the brainchild of Lawrence, the man behind Felt. But Denim are antithesis to Felt's fey, sensibility-heavy thesis. Fans of Lawrence Felt/Denim should check out Go-Kart Mozart .

All of which is perfectly true; but there is also an American band of the same name, who are very different; and about whom I, biographer Ian Marchant, know nothing.