Debut signings to Ronnie Wood's Wooden Records, effervescent young whippersnappers THE THIRST attracted the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist's attention when they blew him away at one of their intimate London soirees at seasoned rock'n'roll haunt, The Half Moon in Putney. Having signed them on the spot, they have been repaying the faith by gigging six nights a week around the capital and have an album ready to go before long.
Thus, it's a pretty safe bet that The Thirst are gonna have those 'in the know' salivating before long, especially when they have already attracted Jake Fior (Babyshambles, The Libertines, The Natives) into the producer's chair and are making a virile racket that's skinny yet muscular and trebly but seriously taut during the course of this explosive two-track second single.
Formed by two-prong guitar/ vocal bruvvers, Kwame and Mensah Cofi-Agyeman, The Thirst boast a sound that's as spiky and drilled as their incessant gigging would suggest. 'Ready To Move', it must be said, does sound uncannily like the bastard love child of early Bloc Party and t'Arctics - something which may or may not prove an albatross over a period of time - but it's still a breathlessly engaging roustabout when taken on its' own upfront merits. Besides, it's delivered with the sort of lusty twinkle in the eye ("I see you up at the bar, I'll take a snakebite/ I hope you're not goin' far, don't get no stagefright") that would surely appeal to Mr. Wood himself. So watch your backs, girls.
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Flipside 'On The Brink', though, is arguably the better of the two tracks here. Pilled-up and wide-eyed like a junior Josef K after 900 pints of Tizer, it's a sizzling, come-and-have-a-go-if-yer-hard-enough anthem pivoting around a chorus of "we drink our Stella on the back of the bus/ watch yer mouth mate, you really don't want it with us" which celebrates all sort of nefarious naughtiness we probably shouldn't discuss in a respectable organ such as this. Oh, alright, I'm talking about pills and coke here but then you probably guessed that already, right?
Whatever. For now at least, The Thirst are sounding pretty damn irrepressible. It's a case of job done where the single format's concerned. Let's see how they fare when spreading it across an album.
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