A straight-up slice of the Seattle sound? The debut single from London-based band THE PYRAMIDS smacks of Cobain’s home territory, but very much in a ‘by-numbers’ way despite the typically powerful noise that’s cranked up by the dynamic duo.
This is the sound of home alright. Heavy feedback precedes a gain-heavy rock n roll grind that has the ol’ fractured, whining distortion fair seeping out of it. Strung-out vocals spin out the usual frustrations, but the familiar features of the grunge genre are all that’s left, once you take away the experimental minimalist bits that give this band their edge.
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Sadly, it seems that this is their idea of a fitting single release: they’ve carefully filtered out the challenging parts of their own sound (in other words the bits that might give them an individuality). It smacks of caution, and fear of being snubbed by commercial radio is about as un rock n’ roll as it gets however loud you turn it up.
Crashing into a thunderous snare fill is one way to deviate from the screaming amplifiers, but for a debut, it's a weak choice
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