| I Am The Door - Frequency
Taking a breezy and melodic approach to the generic alternative rock moves of the past ten years, Bristol act I Am The Door craft nine tracks of fluid, tuneful rock music on their nine track debut Frequency.
Frequency is a balance of fiery yet, relaxed muscular playing; any real aggression is balanced by tight arrangements and clean melodies, bolstered by the dependable vocals of singer Justin Percival.
Overall it is a balance of traditional rockers and ballads, set in a sort of Stereophonics cum Brit rock mode yet with enough Incubus eclectic bite underpinning the songs to lift their band's repertoire above stodgy trad riff rock, the kind of shit like Reef that sticks in your throat like dry Weetabix. Instead, I Am The Door have enough British sound in their make-up to balance out any over-earnest emo-isms. Whatever the fuck an emo-ism is.
No real surprises on offer here, but Frequency is a worthwhile debut base to leap onwards and upwards from.
Out now on Sugar Shack records. |
