After a neat demo Last Bias are back with a full-weight slab o’ wax, and if you have a thing for taut, gritty emo / post-hardcore then you won’t be disappointed.
Featuring members of two great but overlooked bands who were sonically linked but separated by a decade or so (Light The Fuse And Run and The Trigger Quintet), Last Bias meet somewhere in the middle, i.e. you get the tumbledown raggedness that exemplified the 90s emo scene, combined with the lean muscularity of the bands who started appearing after the initial flurry of Level Plane and Witching Hour acts popped their collective corks.
The band balance a sweeping sense of space with scuttly, overwhelming urgency, knowing when to hold back and when to unleash merry hell. Depending on which way the wind’s blowing I detect hints of Drive Like Jehu, The Red Scare, Policy Of 3 and The State Secedes, though there are also moments where a rambunctious revolution summer vein is tapped (I’m looking at you, ‘You’).
All in all, it’s a very fine record indeed and will scratch precisely the right itch if your record collection remains studded with dog-eared releases on Old Glory, Nervous Wreck Kids and The Mountain C.I.A.