This Northeastern band bring us yet another indie pop band. They are everywhere the rise of the Indie has blurred the lines of indie-pop and now electronica music. It is the music of our generation and here we are faced with another attempt at this genre.
Their northern roots definitely come through, and we all know that those northerners are pretty good at making music, but though there is the accents in the vocals, the riffs and the drums full of attitude, they sound nothing like those who came before them, and we all know who that may be. Plus there is five of them in this make up, not four, and two of them aren’t angry brothers.
Enough of their possible personalities, this is everything you would expect from a young indie pop band, though they do not sound like they are playing out of their garage. One thing I have noticed is that the songs are all about different things, they aren’t all about the highs and lows of love, this I think, is a good thing.
‘Sitting in on my own’ begins very powerful, full of guitar and vocals are very heartfelt. ‘Keep going on’ is something that I would not expect, it’s the slow one, its’ not about love (maybe it is?) it seems to be about carrying on throughout adversity, this song is soft and all vocals and a little drumming. Then they jump into ‘Back home’ full throttle and full of energy. The vocals on sitting in on my own are stronger then the ones in back home, but this song has the potential to be something really brilliant, one that will undoubtedly fill any gig goer with energy. The last song I heard ‘Backseat driver’ is one of those full of energy attempts. My favourite from their limited list is ‘Sitting in on my own’; the timing is brilliant in this. They sound very good together, with excellent timing and have the ability to go from heartfelt song that you can imagine listening to whilst travelling thinking wistfully to songs full of energy that would be perfect at modest gigs. Once they have developed their music further, fine-tuned what is already pretty darn good and let the world (Manchester in this case) see what they have got to offer, they wont stayed unsigned for long.
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