This starts well, opener Reclaim has a pleasant piano intro, following through as a rather pleasing riff under the sudden thunder of drums & monster-truck-sized rhythm guitars. But, halfway through the second track, I’m searching Cathouse & Garage Attic playlists for their songs. Hailing from Leicester, they seem to be as yet unknown around my regular haunts, they just sound so damn familiar I was sure I’d heard them before. They’re very now and very familiar, some may say a more aggresive version of Taking Back Sunday, me I’d say filler tracks on an underground “punk” compilation album, all technically fine and well but struggling to hold my attention and all forgotten as soon as finished.
The very familiar sound will of course work in their favour to an extent and I have no doubt the music-mag kids will love TSB if someone cool says it’s scene to do so. That same familiarity plays against them though and I’m just simply not impressed at all; adding extra noise & shouty vocals with heavier guitars, no matter how fast you can do so, won’t win me over.
Two Shot Blast have nothing new to add with this album in an already over-populated genre.
