Steveless
Mistakes in All The Right Places EP
An extraordinary tantrum of fury and noise, Steveless release their latest album through Lancashire’s finest Indie label Cherryade Records. It’s a neat touchstone for the label having launched themselves with the debut album from the same band.
The first thing that strikes you about this album is the sheer impact – Think of a Vauxhall Corsa full of Rhinos ram raiding a local music shop (the smashing glass part not the part where they work out what colour guitar would suit them best!) Distorted guitars and feedback shower across the mix like shrapnel, bulldozing any other instrument that happens to get in its way.
Offering up spaz-rock breaks of pure noise in the vein of Meet Me in St Lois, and even the dynamic mentalness of sadly defunct Texan noiseniks At The Drive-In, this record is unlike anything else that has dropped through the letterbox recently. That’s not to say that the songwriting takes a back seat to the noise though. Like a magic eye picture if you stare at them long enough, conventional structures are in there somewhere and as the band work through the tracks here in double quick time, they even break for ‘the obligatory love song’ before rousing itself to an astonishingly noisy climax.
A cathartic release of an album – there is no doubt that this is a rare noise indeed and one that you would be best advised to snap up as soon as your eardrums dare.
Guest article from Ben M.
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