Single overview / Video premiere
It’s Karma It’s Cool
twenty first Century Meds
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Final featured on Louder Than Conflict in 2020, Lincoln band It’s Karma It’s Cool appear to have modified musical course from Energy Pop to a extra harder-edged Various Rock sound. An English kick-ass REM from the sound of this monitor says Ged Babey on first hear…
However after a number of extra listens… IKIC are a band who defy categorisation. English Americana? Put up-grunge songsmiths? Alt-Rock with a Pop sensibility? Put up-punk melody and angst retailers? All, or not one of the above. What’s indeniable is that they’ll write high quality songs.
Each single band has, doubtlessly, ONE, nice music in them…
They don’t all get it out, get it good, get it recorded… however some do, and in the present day it’s the flip of It’s Karma It’s Cool within the highlight. (I’m sorry, however I hate the band title – I stated the identical about Sizzling Sauce Pony and numerous others most likely, however…).
This can be a nice music.
“The music is about residing on this trendy world, doing what it takes to get by and mainly survive. All of us want one thing to get us via these troubled instances, so all of us self medicate. Be that with medication (authorized or in any other case), alcohol, or any addictive conduct, no matter it could be, we’re all on the lookout for that magic ‘one thing’. However the music’s not judgemental, I’m simply saying ‘look, that is how society has bought us all, we’re all hooked on one factor or one other, numbing ourselves behind a wall of twenty first century medicine. Maybe it’s time to take a step again and take a look at ourselves”
And for a video on a funds of little or no, that is fairly neat too.
’twenty first Century Meds’ is the second single taken from the band’s forthcoming new album, ‘One Million Suburban Sunsets’. A 3 and a half minute blast of adrenalin, loud guitars, driving bass and thunderous drums.
It’s the best way the primary 25 seconds of 10:15 Saturday Night time selecting offers strategy to a rush of It’s The Finish Of the World As We Know It guitar that does it for me. And when the mix the 2 mid-song.
The downer lyrical content material is counterbalanced fantastically by the ahead momentum of the music. Making it a winner in my e-book. Being out of sync inside the present post-IDLES/Fontaines rock panorama makes it even higher.
The earlier single, additionally on the forthcoming album, got here out a number of months again and I didn’t overview it. Nevertheless it’s proof optimistic that this can be a band who constantly write nice songs, slow-burning classics that take a number of listens.
It’s Karma It’s Cool look like a band who usually are not within the first flush of youth. They’re native heroes of their catchment space however deserve a wider viewers. Primarily based on these two flagship songs the quickly come album ‘One Million Suburban Sunsets’ seems like being properly value trying out.
The band are:
Jim Styring – Vocals
Martyn Bewick – Guitars
Mikey Barraclough – Bass
Adam Jolivel-Perkins – Drums
Album Launch gig
Fri 29 August, The Birdcage, Lincoln
Obtain from Bandcamp
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All phrases Ged Babey with PR content material in italics
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