WandleBeat Communications

08/12/2025

PERFECT CHILDREN -
QUE SARAH SARAH
Previously of Barricane, the ever
versatile Chris Alchin has returned
to his Perfect Children roots
over the last year or so - just the
35 years since their birth. Here,
‘Que Sarah Sarah’ (see what
they did there?) finds the band
in a slightly whimsical indie-folk
love gone wrong quandary. It’s
crystal clear of message and
production, reminding me most
of the Lightning Seeds seeking
three minute pop perfection. That
the version I’ve heard stretches to
nearly eight, is probably to allow
for Laima Bite’s excellent video
to unfold, so I’ll forgive them for
that. (LW)

Thanks to OMS issue 65 for the review!

Short film from Perfect Children

10/10/2025

A big thank you to all who have watched the film. If you would like to buy or stream the audio for Perfect Children's new release 'Que Sarah Sarah' it's available on Bandcamp:

track by Perfect Children

06/10/2025

https://youtu.be/T5FYBGnjQV4

Short film from Perfect Children

03/10/2025

https://youtu.be/ZAP5crc55d4?si=Iyt6_adR9PldErbu New short film coming soon. Until then, enjoy this one:

Short Film from Perfect Children

01/10/2025

https://youtu.be/ROWZknm1oLI?si=fsFhk07EsQKs386g

WandleBeat Communications is delighted to announce the continued return of Perfect Children with the release of Que Sarah Sarah

30/09/2025

October 1st.

22/08/2024

Thanks to Nightshift Magazine for a most perceptive review of Nowhere to Run. We'll be back in the studio this weekend working on another tune.

PERFECT CHILDREN

If Defaced have their roots in 90s rapmetal, Chris Alchin’s happy time is very definitely the late 1960s, specifically the folk revival and its move into a dreamy, druggy haze. The singer and guitarist, who until recently was playing guitar with Barricane, has revived his early 90s band alongside co-vocalist Vicki Workman and on this song, ‘Nowhere To Run’, saunters easily and bucolically through musical wooded glades, seemingly in a reverie from which we dare not wake him.

Unfurling at a languorous pace and tinged with an ethereal, almost gothic atmosphere – mostly due to Vicki’s lovely, angelic backing vocals – the song is lost in time and space, a time and space where war and hatred have been banished and lions lie down with lambs. It wouldn’t be stretching it to say this is really rather lovely, and as
soon as Nightshift has got its time machine working we’ll be heading straight over to join Perfect Children in that wooded glade.

14/08/2024

Looking forward to returning to the studio in a week or two...

05/07/2024

A big thank-you to Hugh Garrety from Oxfordshire Music Scene magazine for this lovely review of Nowhere to Run:

PERFECT CHILDREN
- NOWHERE TO RUN
Apparently the first release this
century by Perfect Children,
‘Nowhere to Run’ is the creation
of Chris Alchin, last mentioned
in these pages playing
keyboards with Barricane.
Displaying considerable
versatility, Chris is here featured
in the role of singer/songwriter
and guitarist, ably assisted
in the vocal department by
Vicki Workman. Featuring
slide guitar reminiscent of
recently departed legend David
Lindley, the song is a brooding,
restrained but intense piece
of music, pastoral of imagery
and elegiac in tone. A track that
repays repeated listening. (HG)

https://perfectchildren.bandcamp.com/track/nowhere-to-run

https://youtu.be/ZAP5crc55d4

Short Film from Perfect Children

13/06/2024

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