Labels: G7 Welcoming Committee
Review by: Joe Caithness
Submission Hold, now that Q and not U sound like an out of tune Prince, are easily my favourite herky jerky experimental punk band. Their last LP, Sackcloth and Ashes (the Ostrich Dies on Monday), showed the band grabbing a load of random instruments and making a racket with them, a good racket no less, but this one is back to the stripped down instrumental format of mainly guitars, drums, bass, vocals. The instrumental switch up on this lp is pulled off very well, due to the fact this seems to have only pushed them further into their songwriting skills, of which I must say they have a lot!
From pounding 4/4 stomping choruses to atmospheric funky bass intros, Sub Hold are using all kinds of devices to keep you listening and they wack it all together in the most unpredictable ways, even if you were into the last two lps. It’s great to to see band progress and not fall into the lazy songwriting of adding more and more instruments to make up for the fact they ran out of ideas, because Submission Hold have lots left in them.