the Shackles - Broken Arm - 7

Labels: Sweet Rot
Review by: Andy Malcolm

Damn sweet seven inch here, two tracks taking things in slightly different directions. Broken Arm is the spell binding title track, a slow burner full of repetition. The rolling bassline merges with the cymbal heavy drumming and a killer keyboard line to glide on lazily. This is one of my favourite tracks in a long time, spot on shit – not that much like much else out there at the mo, though if you are into Nodzzz etc then you will probably down with this also. Flipside “Funeral Shroud” is poppier and garage bound with silly “NA NA NA” intro and then kicks in the bass. It’s just basically catchy pop music, you can’t knock it. Fucking great band, can’t wait to hear more.