This is the stuff. Like Sonic Youth again, get excited! Get to 'Work' !
Stretching, reaching vocals typical of the way music's swung since the turning of the millennium, but this sounds good, already a little old-timey, as if harking back to when these kinds of sounds were new and fresh and in doing so, making them so again. Think Million Dead and The Strokes teaming up and you've got this bedroom/garage punk ensemble Sound Team.
Starter to their EP 'The Fastest Man Alive' has a sunshiny feel about it, a galloping beat and lyrics scrawled vocally across the canvas made by the instruments. Then 'It's Obvious What's Happening Here' comes in with some demonically deranged electronic sounds, very reminiscent of Kid A and delivering those feelings that only come with listening to Radiohead's magnum opus of experimentation, top marks on that sprawling instrumental audio landscape.
'Orange Bird' is back into rampant fun, Casablancas vocals meeting Alex Turner at points, but musically far from that scene, not too far, but far enough to be extremely prevalent in the listener's head. Like The Music this is a band that has chosen to adopt quite a daring sonic name and I'd say they're more deserving of it than The Music were, these boys sound like a Sound Team. They're nearer recreating the rushes of Sonic Youth than they are blending into this unadventurous day and age.
And so, it's left to 'In The Dark No One Can Hear You Sweat' to send us off and it does so very well. A discordant introduction and then a groove bringing forth the song which builds and builds to cool stuff, the most Monkey's-like of the four on the record, but still original and different in itself, certainly in the latter half of the song. Yes, it starts well and by the end you're literally really loving it, this is a good band, different, new, exciting, check it.