...bristling live performances and instantly memorable tunes, each penned by keyboardist Alex De Boer. Favourable comparisons to the legendary live work of Manic Street Preachers aren't far off the mark at all. Frontman James Trevelyan has all the passionate, poetic holler you could want from a British Indie Rock vocalist, and the boy ain't too hard on the eye neither: Brooding, heavy-browed, lockjaw-handsome; James is ideal frontman material, pulling off a sweetness that makes you want to introduce him to your mum but with a simultaneous glint in his eye that suggests he just ate Noel Gallagher's eyeballs before he took to the stage and washed them down with a pint of smoke.
Trevelyan immediately pulls you in bloody hard and you're glad he did; finding yourself surrounded on all sides by huge, bright guitars and battered flat by the fearless work of possibly the best unsigned drummer in the country. I shit you not. Chris Griffiths plays his kit in a way that makes you wish you could form a band of your own and poach him. But your band probably wouldn't be good enough.
Nicola Dawson, 4Q Magazine
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Classic British guitar sound that flits from sonic psychedelia through mod rock grunge to shimmering pop glory.
Andrew Hirst, Features Editor
Trinity Mirror Group
Mystery Machine is just a sing-along classic song that everyone will know the words to and enjoy. Simply, it's a great pop song.
Dave Sugden, Leeds Music Scene
...classic British guitar band... blissful indie pop... Farewell To The Stranded has the kind of soaring guitar melodies that Oasis would be proud of and an anthemic chorus that the Manic Street Preachers would be proud to call their own...
FK! Magazine
I only have an entertainment licence for two people, so that's a singer and a guy with sequencers, a high tech duo. Not this f***ing palaver.
Al Murray, Pub Landlord
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