Labels: PurePainSugar
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Aha, more of them Frenchie screamies right here. There’s a lot of this Frenchmo around lately seemingly, and it appears that Pure Pain Sugar is responsible for a large proportion of it. Sed
Non Satiata are following hard on the heels of Daitro and Mihai Edrisch and this 12″ EP
measures up well to those two bands, which is pretty impressive as those guys are both
established and popular already. SNS aren’t doing anything radically different, but they do
a good job with the template for this kinda thing, i.e. screamy, intense, melodic and epic,
especially on the slow-burning opener “Moi Le Premier” which rocks out mightily and merges
into the similarily killer “Spirit Fuel”. They throw in an interesting space-rock type
instrumental that splits the screamin’ up quite nicely, it works well when it could quite
easily have brought the record down a couple of notches.
SBS slide somewhere in between Amanda Woodward and Envy, and I would certainly recommend it
to anyone who enjoys those bands or any of the other French skramz that have been issued in
the past few months.