Telephonophobia is the new 6 song ep by Candid Faces who are a new Hull based 5-piece led by lead singer Liz Shaw alongside Taro Keeitch & Joe Beeks on guitars, Ben Hales on bass & Kurt 'The Hurt' Jackson on Drums.
Coming Home is an indie punk anthem for being left alone, don't mess with Candid Faces as they want to keep the awful parts of the modern world at arms length.
Cougar is I guess being sung about a woman, about 20 years younger than this reviewer, whose preying on some hunky teenage guys, ah to be young enough again to be chased by some real Cougars it was such fun, while Liz gets all bitchy about how old she is, while the guys in the band are secretly hoping to go a few rounds with one or other local cougar for educational purposes of course.
Telephonophobia is the new single by Candid Faces and is a good slice of dayglo punk pop about being scared to use a telephone, that knows more about you than any of your friends or family do. It has echoes of the B-52's or Devo in its arty indie stylings, it's also rather catchy, who hasn't suffered from this paranoia about how much our phones know about us to one degree or another at some point.
Wednesday has jangle pop guitars that keep threatening to go all anorak, as the sweet vocals sing about a brighter Wednesday than today, similar to The Siddeleys this has a very 1985 indie pop feel.
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Towers has huge walls of guitars indebted to the Jesus & Mary Chain but with more quiet loud dynamics than they used, of course thankfully Liz hasn't got an opiated voice, but does have plenty of reverb thankfully, as the voices chatter in the background, it threatens to go all System Of A Down on us, as the guitar wall builds and builds.
The EP closes with Not Like Me that opens with Stooge like guitars married with Lush meets Republica with a slice of My Drug Hell vocals, imploring us to not buy into the modern mainstream, as if that's ever a sane option. Always choose peace and Love appears to be the core message that needs to be heeded as this clatters to its conclusion. They sound like they will be great fun live too.
Find out more at https://candidfaces.bandcamp.com/album/telephonophobia https://www.facebook.com/Candid.Faces.Band https://www.instagram.com/candid.faces.band
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