‘Drawing influences from late 1980s noise rock, no-wave and psychedelic rock, the band describe their sound as “multicoloured melancholy”’ – so says the press release. With a softly wistful undercurrent, ‘Cotton Candy’ actually sounds rather like Echo and the Bunnymen, but with a sharp-toothed bass that buzzes in halfway through, trailing a swirling cathedral of guitar that lands somewhere between Ride and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Counterpart track ‘Storm O.K.’ is event stronger. It exploits a grungy loud / quiet dynamic before surging into a driving chorus that pounds and powers and rages without losing its focus on melody.
Cracking stuff, and one hell of a debut.
Keroscene Online
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