Third Man Theme make music that blends together their different musical interests, including Talking Heads, Can, Neu!, The Beach Boys, The Modern Lovers, Spiritualized, and Lizzy Mercier Descloux. The result is sometimes (post-)punky, sometimes drony, sometimes edgy, sometimes sweet, sometimes all at once. Their debut EP, Tears on Tate, was released in July 2011. "The trio play mesmerising new-wave and kraut-rock influenced tunes which purr with a bittersweet pop sensibility - the songs are by their nature repetitively and intensely driven but with twinges of melody that make it cohesive...
