Labels: self released
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Good grief, Mikey from this band asked me if I’d consider a review almost exactly 12 months ago. Shocking performance. Well, given that the band has been inactive for 8 years prior to recording this, I am sure he won’t mind too much. The band stopped being a band when Mikey moved from Norwich to Seattle, but last year they got the gang back together to record this little 4 tracker. I have only vague memories of the previous album, apart from the pic of the guy on the cover being sick. Somehow we seem to have some kind of alt cover on the CZ review? Weird. Anyway, this is some good indie rock, the opener is mid paced and lumbering before they lurch into the wild and noisy indie punk of “Shark Tank”. Lots of yelling and guitar flailing going on here. Nice! “Listing” is quality 90s indie rock, a la Superchunk. Big and beefy guitars with plenty of melody and they even pull off the gang vocals. You’ll not find that sentence in any other review by me on this website, I promise you, and there is a fuck tonne of sentences on here by me. They wrap on “Hold On To Your Hopes” with a delightful twinkly intro, coming on a bit Pylon before it skews off into a Dinosaur Jr style wigout.
Cool EP, I miss when Norwich had bands I was into, not that I make much of an effort to find out about new ones these days, the lazy shit.