Time for some post-punk goodness now, as we join by far the loudest new band in London! This song - 'City's full' - off of recent album 'Silence Yourself', is absolutely cracking. It begins with a cacophony of rolling drums, dirty guitars and a bass line that really grooves. In fact, I feel that it is the bass that makes this song really great. It's not at all complicated or particular busy, it just has this incredible effect whereby it feels as though it propels each song forward. It definitely adds to the effect of singer, Jenny Beth's, french-accented monotones that seem to grip you by the shoulders and shake you till your sick...in a good way. In that it makes them seem more angry, more crazed.
Then you have the truly remarkable guitars. What is so undeniably excellent about the fret-work in this song is that one minute it is screaming and howling only to be intricate and mellow the next. This is a key aspect of this bands effect, the slow building up of the music into huge crescendos of noise and then falling straight back down into another slow build-up etc.
What you have, overall, is a great new brand of post-punk music. And it's pretty damned good!
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