It’s not every day you hear a song that doesn’t so much make you prick up your ears as leave you slumped in a crumpled heap at the back of thee room, battered and bruised from the force of its sonic assault and sheer bloody brilliance. But then it’s not every day you’ll hear a song like ‘Honey’, the new single by London fivesome Arrows of Love.
That the CD looks like a copy of Nirvana’s ‘Bleach’ is surely no accident : this tune is grimy, gritty and rooted in grunge, with the guitars overdriven and cranked up to eleven and the punk attitude one louder. (Meanwhile, the cassette release comes wrapped in pages of comic book.) Getting Shellac bassist Bob Weston on board to master the release was a sound move, as he’s a man who understands precisely the kind of abrasive sound they’re going for.
Unpredictable and dangerous, ‘Honey’ is brilliantly raw and scuzzy and delivers a proper slap round the chops to stand as one of the most exhilarating singles I’ve heard this year.
