Labels: ash from sweat
Review by: Andy Malcolm
The Green Fuse demo is a tape that I enthused gibberingly over on these very web-pages at some point last year. Now the band has gotten around to forcing 3 of its songs into the tiny little grooves that exist on a see-through piece of yellowy orange (GOLD!) vinyl. And my my. It’s super. The Fuse have a style that feels out of place in the year 2004. 2005 even. It’s all pretty guitar twinkles butting heads with twisty mathiness. You can pluck pieces of random old mid-west emo bands out amidst the chaos and namecheck them if you like, but because they vary their style for the duration, this means that it ends up sounding like the Green Fuse. To me it feels similar to perhaps Managra or Agna Moraines Autobiography with some of the more melodic elements of the whole old Braid / Cap’n Jazz type shenanigans.
Either way, this is some very sweet stuff, bringing in the elements of noisiness, shouting, singing and melody into one big ball of green green twiney fuse. There are 3 tracks in all, and each hits the right spot. Good stuff!