Labels: Dire
Review by: Kunal Nandi
Positively jammed full of youthful spunk, The Sceptres have some Shitty Limits dudes on rhythms and, in a nice clash of styles, one of the guitarists from The Mock Heroic, so it rocks whilst retaining a nicely awkward jaggedness. The new element is lady singer Briony, her cutesy brashness tinged with derangement that cuts through almost as much as the zingily discordant solos. The songs are pretty hyper, essentially grounded in new-wave punk, but getting pretty bloody noisy too. Very fun, and smart with it.