Labels: self released
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Ok! This is some rocking indie rock, as opposed to some piss weak indie rock. Lanterns are all LOUD LOUD LOUD. Actually, I just remembered I have heard these guys before on a split 12″ with This Flood Covers the Earth, but this sounds pretty different to how I recall they were on that. It doesn’t help me that I never did a review of it, so I am shit out of luck there, and don’t expect me to go and try and find it in the name of doing some research for this review now. Anyway, this EP is 5 songs, of big rocking guitars and so on. It’s a bit shoegazey, the guitars are certainly spacey at times but there is a massive pop sensibility to this, so much so that I could almost see this being pretty huge, I think there’d be a lot of people into this if they heard it. “Creation Myth” is the catchiest song on display, whilst “Desperate Wolves, Beacon Flames” may be the best. It is seriously reminding me of something, I guess it’s kind of like later Sunny Day Real Estate perhaps? When they went all a bit rock and less emo. I know that’s not going to really sell it to many people this, but that’s how it sounds to me. Like the band is almost flirting with being epic and laying down some guitar FX, but not quite hitting the wanky lows of so many bands that do that. This is a really solid EP of big hitting chunes, and I think that if you are in the mood for some indie rock that just gets on with it, then you should check Apocalypse Youth out.