Sharm El Shakes - Demo - Tape (2012)

Labels: Sexbeat
Review by: MH

This band are from East London and are ex-members of various other bands including Lovvers who I am familiar with. I saw them play at the Rough Trade East shop a few years ago and quite enjoyed their set. There are two tracks of garage-y, punky pop here which were released on tape. “œCoughing Blood” is on one side of the tape or the first track of the download I have. It’s quite lo-fi and rough around the edges. The garage-y guitars and sneering vocals battle it out over a more than danceable beat. “œTeenage Pricks” is similarly paced and about teenagers with nothing to do. A decent offering all round. The tape was limited to a run of 50 on a snot green cassette. It has since sold out but you can still download the tracks from the Bandcamp page.