Title: Utopia
Format Reviewed: MP3
Format Released: 19th January 2015
Reviewed By: Gareth
The makings of your new favourite party band are here, all hail...Twisted.
Utopia is, in a word, smashing. Add early Million Dead, a splash of Emo (Snowing style), 1994! levels of shouting and a pace to an album not seen since Slayer were in their teens and you get this stonker of a nod to 70's punk, in style and as in sound.
You could easily reference them against The Buzzcocks, The Damned or The Undertones. Easier still to say it takes the spiritual noise of a decade, condenses it and multiplies it by equal measures of youthful exuberance, frustration and fun, then to return it back at you in the form of fast screaming, and I mean fast. Like so fast it gives you 14 songs in 29 minutes.
The lashings of ideas are generated and spent fast, this is full of blink-and-you'll-miss-it gems. Solid gold gems, if that can exist? The standout two tracks for me are without doubt Toxic Convener and Holy Moments.
Everything for a punk album is here and yet there's also nothing new. This is usually the killer fact about music. No-one wants to hear the same idea repeated over and over and over to some boring death but luckily the opposite can be said about Utopia. I genuinely can't wait to see these guys do their thing live in front of me. They've totally mastered the art of taking a simple idea, repeating it and making it killer. This is the type of band people bond over, the first gig moment all over again. Let's all go watch them, have a can, buy a shirt and fall in love. Tidy. Darts.
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