Electric Soft Parade are masters of reinvention. If you trace your favourite artists there can be said to be two groups, those who peddle and stick to a sound you love (think Oasis, the Strokes, Abba - for example) and those that constantly twist and turn your perceptions of them and push their own abilities as performers and writers, whilst still somehow never losing their own inimitable traits (think Robert Wyatt, The Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals). With ‚Äö?Ñ??No Need To Be Downhearted‚Äö?Ñ?¥ the Electric Soft Parade root themselves as firmly in the latter category. Tom and Alex White are from Brighton. They pretty much put Brighton on the music map and they‚Äö?Ñ?¥re tireless musicians, intent on breaking musical systems, formulas and public perceptions. The unceasing energy of these boys shines through in all their endeavors: both continue to play with Eamon Hamilton and Marc Beatty in funktry-punk-disco supergroup Brakes whilst contributing to a number of other Brighton-based projects, too. ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE PLAY ROOM 1.