The Police, The Clash, and Sublime have tasted of the Two-Tone fruit, so why not a thrash band? Because they throw it in as thoughtlessly as a movie sample.
At first listen, Revolutions is great party music grooves and beats that won’t quit. Continue to x-plore their sonic landscape, and be prepared to be schooled.
Described as Cave In with dreamy Cure echoes. There’s something to that, but strip off the crunchy Converge riffing and you’re staring at a jazz record.
In under three minutes, “Rather be Dead” took metalcore to its zenith, and rendered it obsolete. Seriously, where do you go after such a revelatory statement?
About six-to-seven of the 11 songs are winners, which means that if The Wildhearts were playin’ baseball, they’d be the all-time supreme batting champs.
Amid ’80s synths, hip hop beats, French pop sensibilities, and British folktronica aesthetics, there breathed a tender Motown soul that would make Stevie proud.