This is the debut album by The Fireworks and it arrived on New Year's Eve which seemed appropriate considering the bands name. They come blasting out of the speakers in a hail of feedback drenched guitars and cool female vocals like they are a marriage between Slowdive and Lush with hints of The Muffs thrown in for good measure.
If the opening salvo of Will MY Heart and Runaround had me expecting the pace to continue as frantically the introduction of some male vocals on Let You Know that sort of slows things down and adds a sort of Drop Nineteens feel to things with some nice chiming guitars over echo laden vocals showing they can reel in the noise.
Of course that doesn't last long and Tightrope is stuffed with raging guitars and rampant noise over the quite sweet vocals as if singer Emma is a rock of calm among the raging seas around her. Which Way to Go marries nice harmonies and almost Vaselines like vocal duet with the feedback madness guitars and swirling noise to great effect.
Took It All is really channelling Lush again and is a good indie pop tune. Switch Me On however is all Jesus and Mary Chain menace and mayhem around the sweet as can be vocals a great towering wall of noise to demolish your speakers with. On and On no not with Ariston but with more of the feedback noise mania and sweet vocals that could almost be We've Got a Fuzzbox poppy if it wasn't for all the noise around them.
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Back To You is like the poppier end of My Bloody Valentine it's almost dreamy in places but of course not for long. Stay Here seems to reel in the noise a bit but only a bit and so really comes across like they want to be like Lush once more. Corner Of My Mind has me thinking about World Of Twist for the first time In years which is a bit odd to say the least as is the tune.
Final Say has them heading for the door at the end of an argument that isn't totally reflected in the music that is a bit more restrained than what's come before but only just. The album then closes with In The Maning as its spelt on the album sleeve or In The Morning as its' sung a slow acoustic ballad that shows how the bands songs would sound stripped of all the noise so that they really do sound more like The Vaselines than anything else it's a nice end as it works as a good come down from all the intensity of the rest of the album.
You can find out more about the album and the band at https://fireworksgopop.wordpress.com/ and order the album from www.shelfliferecords.com
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