It’s exuberant, lively in most parts and features a whole raft of musical styles with the underpinning of an urgent need to keep a rhythm going.
They're wholeheartedly fun with an incessant joy for life and youth; as a result they've made collection of songs that are a fresh take on an old genre.
The fact that an album of kitschy chants set to galloping beats emerges as not only palatable but outrightly inviting is a reason to hold Be Your Own King in warm regard
Featuring production work from The Dø’s Dan Levy, their debut album is lots of fun, all wonky pop hooks and flimsy male-female vocal harmonies.
At times it can be a bit round-the-campfire twee, but when they’re doing something as cut-yourself-sharp as ‘Wall Paper’, it’s easy to forgive Concrete Knives for the odd moment of artistic bluntness.
At their best, Concrete Knives are a band filled with boundless and infectious energy and they don’t sound like they’re stopping anytime soon.