Reviewed by Sue Rann

The first classification that sprang to my mind when I heard this was thrash folk. Silly me. This is of course alternative rock that well known alternative to being able to sing and play instruments. (Just a joke.) The best starter of the four tracks here is "Sense", which feeds in with fuzzy distorted guitar and adds instruments like baubles on a Christmas tree with the wonderfully looney fiddler scraping madly away as the fairy on the top. "The One" reminds me a bit of the Electrics, but rawer and considerably less deft. "I Prism" starts off sounding like an accident in a missile silo. Wafts around interminably. Ends as if the engineer had been spotted going off shift, as the instruments drop out uncertainly one at a time. Ce n'est pas evident, boys. Nope, and it ain't gonna be easy either. Lyrics-wise, these guys could learn a lot from Sammy Horner And Co about straight-doon-the-line words. Jeeeest a little student-ish pretension, a bit gribbled in the warbling department, nothing that can't be ironed out. Let's hope they get to their irons before they record their 'Explosion Of Buds' album debut.

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