(from Rolling Stone)
When all their schoolmates were going to University, five friends from Crewe decided to make a band by that name instead.
After studying music together at college, Joel Smith (drums), Zak Bowker (vocals/guitar), Ewan Barton (bass) and Eddie Leigh (video games? We’ll come back to that..) set up shop in Barton’s dad’s house and played ‘til their fingers bled.
What came from those sessions is Title Track, the band’s astonishing debut EP, out now via Transgressive. On it, they take cues from emo and math rock before turbo charging them and speeding them up to lightning fast levels.
The first single ‘Notre Dame Made Out Of Flesh’ is a gargantuan statement of intent from a young band. Over its five minutes, it travels through what feels like hundreds of sections, all at breakneck speed. Hardcore, punk and emo are all honoured in its sound, and it comes with the unhinged energy of the earliest Biffy Clyro records. At the end of the song, one member laughs maniacally, as if astonished at the incredible racket they’ve just made.
Live, they’re just as raucous and interesting a proposition. While Smith, Bowker and Barton thrash away at their instruments with abandon, Leigh sits at the side of the stage and literally plays video games while wearing a balaclava. When one song is over, he holds up a sign with the (often long and wordy) title to the next track, before his bandmates let the handbrake off once again.
(from Rolling Stone)
When all their schoolmates were going to University, five friends from Crewe decided to make a band by that name instead.
After studying music together at college, Joel Smith (drums), Zak Bowker (vocals/guitar), Ewan Barton (bass) and Eddie Leigh (video games? We’ll come back to that..) set up shop in Barton’s dad’s house and played ‘til their fingers bled.
What came from those sessions is Title Track, the band’s astonishing debut EP, out now via Transgressive. On it, they take cues from emo and math rock before turbo charging them and speeding them up to lightning fast levels.
The first single ‘Notre Dame Made Out Of Flesh’ is a gargantuan statement of intent from a young band. Over its five minutes, it travels through what feels like hundreds of sections, all at breakneck speed. Hardcore, punk and emo are all honoured in its sound, and it comes with the unhinged energy of the earliest Biffy Clyro records. At the end of the song, one member laughs maniacally, as if astonished at the incredible racket they’ve just made.
Live, they’re just as raucous and interesting a proposition. While Smith, Bowker and Barton thrash away at their instruments with abandon, Leigh sits at the side of the stage and literally plays video games while wearing a balaclava. When one song is over, he holds up a sign with the (often long and wordy) title to the next track, before his bandmates let the handbrake off once again.
