Kill The Captains -‘Fun Anxiety.’ (Armellodie)
I really hadn’t been sure at all that I was going to like this album a few months ago. When the first single off the album ‘Rummy’ dropped on the mat at 17 Seconds Towers, it didn’t do much for me.
Yet the album has had a considerable amount of play over the last few weeks, growing on me with each listen, and I’ve even grown to quite like the aforementioned single. The Sheffield-based four piece have given u
s an album that manages to take notes from math-rock type bands like Shellac and Future Of the Left, whilst also exuding the fun of bands like supergrass. I’d be reluctant to say pop-punk, because that would be frankly inaccurate.
Over the course of the twelve tracks herein, the stall is set out for a band who give the impression that they’ll be awesome live and have the inventiveness and the potential to develop over the course of successive albums, rather than simply repeating themselves over and over again. I’m kicking myslef over my initial reluctance, because this is really a very impressive album.
Kill the Captains join Super Adventure Club, The Scottish Enlightenment and Cuddly Shark in showing Armellodie to be one of Scotland’s greatest contemporary labels.
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Fun Anxiety is out now.
Kill The Captains -‘Spot The Leopard.’ mp3
(Try this!)
