Title: Strange Powers (ARC Live Sessions)
Format Reviewed: MP3
Format Released: 18th August
Reviewed By: Millie Manders
Listening to Pale Angels' live EP, my first thought was how much like The Ramones they are. The second was that they create a really good noise for a three piece band!
The musicality is tight. Really tight. I love that the vocals sound distant, like they've been projected through an old radio. This is a true trad-punk band: four to the floor simplicity, but with none of the slop. With pop song structures and Americana guitar riffs in places though, it lends a psychobilly feel too. Think Tiger Army, Demented Are Go.
The ARC Live Sessions kicks off with Just Faces. It's full of aggression and old school feel. The vocals are pitch perfect and the track has bounce. It has a 70’s/80’s punk vibe I can't get enough of. Reminds me of all the music my Dad brought me up on. Love it.
Crazy Rhythms brings that Americana touch. Beautiful deep bass with slides and slap too. It's really effective and it serves as a point of interest. Whilst we are firmly in the punk genre here, it’s good to have groove, and they have definitely brought it.
Signing off with Romantic Depression, Pale Angels have created a minimal vocal track that is the epitome of that old school feel, garage band, punk roots sound. It's got everything: hard drums with sick-ass fills, groovy bass, guitars with drive (and go faster stripes) and a huge heart.
This is a really good live EP. I'd suggest putting on your bovva boots, glueing your Mohawk in place and putting this on full volume, preferably with a couple of hundred mates in a warehouse and having a damn good mosh fest.
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