Burn The Fleet- Black Holes
If you booked an appointment with a trainee hairdresser, would you appreciate it if they lingered on deciding their first move; hovering above your bonce cautiously with that sharp pair of scissors and an anxious expression on their face? Or would you feel more at ease of a good job being done by means of a confident and decisive first cut (as long as they didn't separate you from one of your ears)? This is the tenuously figurative principle upon which extremely promising four-piece Burn The Fleet operate. They are new and fresh, but are letting us know they know exactly what they are doing.
They've had one EP out and have just released new single 'Black Holes', but these astonishingly intrepid and creatively mature offerings could fool you that this is a band that have been going places for years. You can feel confident that they know who they are artistically, and they have the weight of their talent to allow them to dare to experiment with their refined 'sound' to produce some really blinding music. This new single is a prime example.
'Black Holes' is a well written, catchy and gorgeously melodic track. It's packed with as much crunch as a bagful of peanut brittle and chucks you about on a choppy sea of riffs. It is definitely the sort of thing fans of bands like Thrice would be into, with the heavy tones of shade being lifted by the lightness of the harmonies and soaring choruses. For aficionados of filthy guitar like I, it is an unashamedly extravagant hit of the good stuff.
Lyrically, front man Andrew Convey says the inspiration comes from an observation that 'some people live their lives without even stopping for a moment to see who is around them...(we're) asking people to step back and take a look before it's too late and everything falls into a black hole.' Erm. Yeah, I get that. Sort of. But you don't need to look that hard at this track. Just sit back and enjoy it for what it says it does on the tin. Rocks the crap out of you. I love Burn The Fleet, and this single makes me most excited to see what's next on the cards for these four lads from Southampton.