This Et Al: Wardens
How many more bands like this is there room for? Northern Indie pop rock. While I applaud focus being put on Leeds bands, I just seem to have heard loads of this sort of stuff coming from all over the country. Loud and raucous, energetic and bad tempered heaviness. Noise with a hint of the melodics about it. I found the two songs instantly forgettable. There's no catchy hooks or the merest bit of anything interesting really.
It's the band's second release. The first made a few people murmur favourable noises in their direction with mumbles of Sonic youth, Mogwai etc, but for me the lads have a long way to go before getting on the same ladder, let alone an adjacent rung close to either of those. OK some will call me an old miseryguts, but really a bit more experience should bring them on a treat. Saying that, they are gigging all over the place throughout early December, so maybe I'll go and see them live, to prove to myself I'm wrong.