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Opening two tracks are fantastic and destroy any other dance-punk album from #2021 except Citizen - that Citizen album deserves a lot more love if you want to count that but anyway these first two tracks easily exceed the most obvious counterparts in Royal Blood and DFA1979. We are at a 9/10 thus far.

Damn that was an exhilarating start but fucking hell was that a steep drop off point, what a devastating comedown and not in an artistic way, by track 4 I even double checked, no check that, ... read more

This is so fucking niche.

Why’s it so enjoyable?

I think that the obvious musical rips are more forgivable due to their leaning into a fun and somewhat comedic direction full of simpsons references and an eclectic mix of stoner, doom and classic metal riffs that you can take as seriously as expected going by the title.

Is the album silly? Yes, in fact it’s downright stoopid but it makes the album fun.

With a shoegaze aesthetic Lonely The Brave go for a hit on ‘Bound’ with very #2000s pop-rock vocals and ‘Distant Light’ follows suit.

‘Bright Eyes’ goes totally #2000s and dials back the shoegaze aesthetic and ‘Chasing Knives’ drops the shoegaze vibe entirely and feels throwaway.

Acoustic title track is decent. ‘Your Heavy Heart’ is decent.

As the album progresses it feels like the vocals become more and more upfront and dominate ... read more

Ok this is a super short post-punk EP but it’s actually got a really great sound and the vocalist has a little something, they have energy.