This is the long overdue debut album by Milton Keynes band Supakarma who began recording this album in the last century, when they toured hard, before they found themselves recording the band's debut album at Great Linford Manor Studios, where they had the sort of creative differences that stopped the album for being completed by Daniel Binks, Jamie Paul Morris, Steven Sciberras and Ben Hallet. The band broke up and the recordings were shelved. Scroll forwards to 2019 when guitarist Jamie sadly passed away and the remaining members decided to put there differences aside and complete this album in tribute to their fallen friend.
Having spent some time playing gigs in Milton Keynes in the late 90's, I have to say they are far more indie than most of the bands I saw, or were involved in, that played at The Pitz back then, they certainly don't sound like they were scarred by being at the most embarrassing gig I went to in the 90's.
The album opens slowly with Calmer Coaster as the long tones are added too by the chiming guitar as the drums come in, as this goes widescreen euphoric baggy indie rock, that's reminiscent of Atlases as it builds and falls.
Demons has a bit of a Radiohead meets Suede feel, as it gently builds as we find out all about a master of deceit, what he's up too, being the bands own Demon as they try to turn the tide in their favor.
Digital Vision looks at the coming digital apocalypse, the guitars come raging in, as they play about on there laptops in mobile homes while trying to find the right frequency and get the chemistry right. This feels like it would have been a live monster.
I Remember You opens with a short sample before the keyboards come in, as a sweet acoustic ballad starts to build, as they wonder where all the Baggy's have gone, as the regrets for all sorts of events are eating at them, memories of a friend both good and bad, as this quite 60's style psychedelic pop song is drawn through a 90's prism to remember the good times.
My Own Advice reminds me of one of Reuben's quieter songs, as they try to figure out how to follow their Own Advice as the sparkly guitar shines through the acoustic strumming.
New Test Cannonball isn't a re-working of The Breeders classic, being another Radiohead style introspective tune with some deep synth, as the guitars start to cut through as this builds soaring into the distance like that Cannonball.
The Way It Is has distended guitars with drums crashing in, as a windswept tale of a search for a guardian angel, to save you from all the carnage around you, as this continues to add layers and sounds as it becomes ever more widescreen.
The album closes with You Could Be My Heroine a frantic Crockett's style indie pop banger that has a James bond theme undertow, as they spit bile at someone they used to look up to, but who has tarnished themselves for them with lies.
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