APPEARING ON
Friday, May 14th, 2010
Catfish and the Bottlemen [+]
Free admission before 9pm, £4 thereafter
http://www.myspace.com/catfishandthebottlemen
Continuing to raise the bar of the local music scene Catfish produced music with their stunning new EP The Beautiful Delay. Begging to belong on the radio, each one of the stunning five tracks drills unrelentingly into your cerebral cortex and refuses to leave. The band have moved on from their calling-card release Poetry & Fuel; easing off on their strict indie-twist to let in a little more thrust and a little more rock. And it works perfectly.
Finding their own niche ’sound’ rather than drawing on inspiration from other sources, it is a natural and thoroughly engaging EP.
A feedback led Bodies highlights their punchier approach, while Harlot – complete with intelligent backing vocals and off-beat rhythm guitar – keeps one foot in the indie sensibility. But each song remains distinctly Catfish.
The flanged opening of Collide sliding into strong chords and catchy melodies induces involuntary toe-tapping.
And Tyrants carries on the progression with a soft intro and verse falling into a headbang-able assault of guitars and cymbals.
Like the tracks themselves, the assembly of the EP has been carefully considered, with instrumental closer Trippin channelling the ghostly tones of My Vitriol before settling into a truly anthemic smashing of wailing riffs and pulsing drums.
Free admission before 9pm, £4 thereafter
http://www.myspace.com/catfishandthebottlemen
Continuing to raise the bar of the local music scene Catfish produced music with their stunning new EP The Beautiful Delay. Begging to belong on the radio, each one of the stunning five tracks drills unrelentingly into your cerebral cortex and refuses to leave. The band have moved on from their calling-card release Poetry & Fuel; easing off on their strict indie-twist to let in a little more thrust and a little more rock. And it works perfectly.
Finding their own niche ’sound’ rather than drawing on inspiration from other sources, it is a natural and thoroughly engaging EP.
A feedback led Bodies highlights their punchier approach, while Harlot – complete with intelligent backing vocals and off-beat rhythm guitar – keeps one foot in the indie sensibility. But each song remains distinctly Catfish.
The flanged opening of Collide sliding into strong chords and catchy melodies induces involuntary toe-tapping.
And Tyrants carries on the progression with a soft intro and verse falling into a headbang-able assault of guitars and cymbals.
Like the tracks themselves, the assembly of the EP has been carefully considered, with instrumental closer Trippin channelling the ghostly tones of My Vitriol before settling into a truly anthemic smashing of wailing riffs and pulsing drums.
