Having recently released the first single from the album ‘Digging The Hole’, they return with ‘Operating At A Loss’, the latest track to be lifted from the long-player.
Starting with a rumble of drums and menacing bass, before exploding out of the speakers with the kind of punk rock new wave kick that feels like it might be preparing to propel the listener through a brick wall, ‘Operating At A Loss’ gets extra points for managing to both nod to Magazine’s ‘Shot By Both Sides’ and include an extensive rant about coffee in the second verse.
“Force Majeure” is an urgent, joyous noise – a twelve track battering ram of an album that builds hugely on the promise of their debut and acts as a calling card from your new favourite honest rock’n’roll band.
A vital and concise record which thrills with its direct simplicity and excitement, recalling the likes of Parquet Courts or early Modern Lovers, “Force Majeure” (rarely does a title so aptly describe the contents) opens with the controlled explosion of recent single ‘Digging The Hole’ and doesn’t let up apart from occasional journeys into post punk territory on the Television-esque ‘New Alphabet’ and the wonderfully Wire-ish ‘What Else’. Across the whole record four voices sing, walls of guitars bite and scratch, the rhythm section locks behind them in perfect time while the listener grabs on for dear life and just tries to keep hold.
taken from their forthcoming LP ‘Force Majeure’ out on Jan 17 2025 via Heavenly Recordings.
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