Labels: Boss Tuneage – Waterslide
Review by: Alex Deller
Caught Moving Targets last year when the descended on the Sebright Arms and, truth be told, wasn’t expecting too much. I’d popped along out of a sense of duty rather than crackling anticipation, and was pleasantly surprised at having my teeth knocked askew by as lean, wiry and energetic a set as I ever could have hoped for. This LP comes off the back of that tour, and, if you’re a fan of anything the band put out in the 80s or 90s it certainly won’t disappoint, with Ken Chambers showing he still has as keen an ear for a melody as ever. The songs surge and soar with everything straining at the edges, the vocal lines swooping over careening guitar parts and locked-in interplay from young buck rhythm section Emilien Catalano and Yves Thibault. It is, frankly, a delight … a punchy, powerful, catchy-as-all-fuck rebirth from one of melodic hardcore’s true unsung greats.