Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn review – this brilliant post-punk racket sounds like a trip to a rivet factory
Theirs is angular, driving post-punk with audible echoes of the Pop Group, Wire, Gang of Four and the Wedding Present, but they've certainly brought their own spin to it. The songs blaze forth with hurtling, mostly indecipherable imagery. They could be yelling 'I am the spy on your pillow' or 'words like tonality come to me'. What does it all mean? Who knows – but it's fun thinking it through.
There's a real sense of drama to the circular-saw guitars, slow builds and cascading basslines, from which spring effervescent tunes and interesting curveballs. Like You'll Lose is post-punk with a hymnal quality. The weirdly compulsive Music for 3 Drums knowingly references Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, but sounds as if it was recorded during a visit to a rivet-making factory. Some of their most distorted guitars, drones and screeching metal might prove too challenging for many palates, but it's refreshing to hear a young band make such a bold racket.
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