Wooahhh beware! The opening track is by utterly-thunderly Chickenhawk who have previously ripped my cochlea from their drums on a previous release of theirs, the A Or Not EP back in August (reviewed on this very site, noise fans). Scorpieau is not exactly a picnic in a breeze, more like a spit-roast in a hurricane. Only one way to describe these maniacal Leeds urchins waaraagargarwgarggh! Yeah, I like them!
Next up is another quality track provided this time by Esben & The Witchs Skeleton Swoon. Ill ignore the wrist-slap of a title and move onto the rather beguiling and trippy music it embraces. Think Siousxie Sioux and Adele Diane having a good old snog with Aphex Twin and Brian Eno doing the soundtrack to it. Easy now I said just think. Hear that? Thats rather lovely isnt it? It all builds into a eerie crescendo that sounds like the Doves for some tenuous reason before eerier chimes tinkle like a tobacconists door-bell DTTR you have a winner with this band. Yeah, I like them also!
Back to more familiar territory with indie-chunks hurled from the mouth of Olfar but rather tasty chunks you understand. Olfar is one man who likes the sea that he cant see and wet feet on a winters day. Sounds like he has spent far too many chilly nights in youth hostels but Im keen to hear more thud, strum and bluster from him so, yeah, I like him also.
Finally, Manchester offer up the acceptable tones of Airship singing and free-wheeling their way through Spirit Party, another Halloween-linked song that is, by turns, safe and sound, strum n drum. But its not bad in fact, their Screaming Lights-esque sound is a fair mash of the pumpkin, although the chorus sounds tit-all like Mew (based on the shameful promo-notes comparison made by marketing company with pillows in their lugholes).
The last DTTR EP was a vinegar-soaked old whore of a record this release has been brushed down, dressed up and had a decent floss of the choppers. Yeah I like this a lot.