This EP is genuinely well put together. All the bits are in the right places, the choruses, the verses, the slides, the riffs and solos and middle eights. They name check U2 and AC/DC, and Guns and Roses in their press release, and mention Foo Fighters too. Amongst the praise and guff, there’s a notion of returning to a time when music meant more than the latest trend. That’s fine, as long as there’s some originality, and something more than studied craft that hones your songs into radio friendly rock pop paint by numbers.
That’s what this is: worth listening to if you like the weaker parts of the back catalogue of the Foos, or of Feeder. It’s certainly skilfully done, but so is a good tiling job, and that’s something that, grouting or no grouting, is going to be on the wall and unobtrusive rather than captivating and unique.
