LAAAAAAAHHHNDAAAAAAAAAHHHN! They’re based there, but they don’t all come from there, which is nice. Let it just be said that there are four of them, they formed in 2005 and they’re a bit post-punky and hardly electronic at all. As I first thought. Oops.
‘Lovesucker’ launches a lone guitarist onto a stage with ne’er a beat to his name before augmenting the lonely soul with a lively Automatic-esque beat from Face. Scratch that, it’s more a Hives or Dead Kennedys thing going on here; that Automatic feel comes from the yelped under vocals: “I’ve got a double bed and bottle of red,” sleazes the lead while a hapless victim yaps from a nearby love dungeon. The guitars are clean, though. Perhaps too clean, and even though there is just a smidgeon of electronic trickery, you do come away thinking, “needs a bit of filling/fuzzing out.”
‘Cameron’ is a more gutsy affair. The riff is Mancini catchy, the bottom end is drum n bass (though Judge’s bass could do with being up in the mix a bit) and vocals tumble and tangle with each other in a glorious chaotic mess that drags you in, fills you up then leaves you wanting more.
Not sure what to make of the remix of ‘Call Of The Gods’ seeing as I… and probably everyone else… has never heard the original. But I do like South Central and this electronic stutter of a song that blows up the riff to the size of a mountain before giving it legs and saying “go kill.” Post punk, post new rave (pah) and leery as hell. Or should that be LRy as hell?
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