Possibly taking their cue from The Clash or The Wedding Present in their quest to release a string of singles in the one year, enthusiastic West Yorks quartet AOMC are determined to release five 2-track bulletins via their Myspace during the course of 2007.
They've very kindly furnished us with three of the five (the last, I think, has yet to be released) and we're aiming to review 'em all over the space of the next few weeks - an aim that has intensified after clapping lugs on the two fiery critters making up April's 'Part Two'.
According to AOMC'S manifesto, they aren't entirely sure what's liable to ensue when they visit Cottage Road Studios in Leeds every couple of months or so, but as they suggest this spontaneous approach sure as hell keeps the tension and excitement in the red, for both emotions bleed signficantly highly across the course of the two tunes - 'T.I.Y.L' and 'Hit The Ground' - they laid down at their April session.
AOMC'S website suggests reviewers have struggled to pin their abrasive sound down, as a slew of comparisons are mentioned, and certainly the opening 'T.I.Y.L' (it's 'This Is Your Life', incidentally) is drilled and militaristic in all the right ways. Yes, the likes of The Cooper Temple Clause, Therapy? and arguably even Fugazi assail you during this brief, but fascinating ghost train ride, but when you emerge breathless at the end, it's simply the sound of AOMC that rings in your ears.
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Second track, 'Hit The Ground' is perhaps even more uncompromising. Claustrophobic from the word go with its' opening drone, power station-razing drum sound and compressed vocals, it really kicks in when the rhythm cranks up around the 2 minute 20 mark and makes like Oceansize with a small abbey full of Gregorian chanting monks in tow. It makes for unsettling, but fascinating listening and makes a convincing argument in favour of noise being for heroes after all.
Very nice indeed gents. See you for 'Part Three' shortly.
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