Variations On Swing

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KERRANG Sparking debut from hotly tipped brit rockers, Like enthrawling post-hardcore? meet your new favourite band. KKKK's ROCKSOUND Spiky, technical and aggressive, MMISL weild time signature's as if practicing capoeira with lightsabers to form a choppy blend of hardcore that cannot fail to invigorate 8/10 DROWNED IN SOUND Once you succumb to the ride and just let go, it will carry you through. And on the way you can enjoy the fantastic talent on display - tangled riffs and spliced rhythms that you only wish you could dream up, let alone play. This is a challenging, unsettling, superb debut 8/10 THE FLY Everything about "variations on swing" is full on, from the impossibly fast drumming, just about keeping up with the Attention Deficit disorder key signature's. They make at-the-drive-in sound more like busted circa 2000 4/5 CONTACT MUSIC Meet Me In St. Louis are a pure revelation. Angular, stark and technically beautiful, they peddle a gorgeous hybrid of eclectic noise. It shares similarities with Faraquet, HP Zinker and perhaps on a more contemporary tip, At The Drive In. It's altogether a more mature and considered approach to the whole affair though, blending cutting, jagged riffs with a carefully considered sensitivity. it is undoubtedly an extremely strong contender for best album of 2007. 4/5 THE MUSIC MAGAZINE 44 minutes of exhilarating post-hardcore and a sound all their own. Mixing the fast a furious with the delicate and eloquent the five-some disp

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