Ruddy hell, it’s Soft Cell! I mean, La Quiete. How many feckin’ records do La Quiete have out? They are nothing if not prolific. And great. Yes, they are great. Some day I will find all my stuff by them and record it all on a tape maybe. It’d be like an LP by now. And an LP is something they need to hurry up and make. Please. I beg for that album in pretty much every review I write about them. Anyway, on this split they have a pair of songs, and continue to expand on their take on the style which is playing guitars dead fast and melodically whilst squawking in a frantic fashion. The opener emotes to fine effect building up to the dramatic conclusion of the song, whilst the second track just flies around at the pace of a fast (squawking) bird with moments of subdued and dark twinkling. HOTT. They waste the ending of this song though, it is a great build up that should just emerge into all the dudes going ARGHHHHHH! but it just repeats and eventually fades out. Never mind. Anyway, La Quiete is kind of like Mohinder. Smart.
God knows who KC Milan are, but their song starts out with this beautiful mid-west emo twinkle, guitars repeating the same cute little chords over and over with the bubbling bass moving things along, except it never quite gets to the stage where they have any words. The second track starts out noisier but with more nice guitar noises and some horn later. I think these songs are a bit like an instrumental version of Blacktop Cadence or the one song I have heard by a band called Audio Armada. I would have enjoyed this much more if it had words, as it feels a bit bare without them, it’s not bad though.