Labels: Popular Records
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Oh dear, I am struggling with this one rather. It’s like an attempt to mix poppy emo with a bit of math, and it fails completely on both counts by failing to idenify the traits that would make either of those genres listenable. For poppy, they use annoying keyboards and sing a bit. Yet the keyboards are bland and they have shouty backup vocals that sound dreadful. The mathiness simply doesn’t work either, twiddling away in a more pleasant fashion than wankmeisters, This Town Needs Guns, yet it fails to elicit the level of quality you got from, say, Spy Vs Spy. Luckily, Killec is only 8 songs long and over in 25 minutes or so, so you don’t get too bored, but by the end you are left wondering where they put the tunes. Everything is so disjointed and the blend of styles is teeth grindingly uncomfortable, you are left with a horrible mish-mash, lurching from the grating widdle to not exactly endearing pop. Definitely nothing to hear here.