Didn't see that coming... - 3/5
If there were a band who had released an EP called “Spider Bites, Orphans & Aliens from Other Planets”, you would have thought it would be from either Blink 182 or Primus. But no, this EP is from Darlington based ‘Fight your Fires’, blending hard rock and a somewhat nice little soundtrack to open up your summer.
The drums start rolling on the first track “I'm Towing Your Girlfriend and Giving Her A Parking Ticket”. A long name for a rather short song but it gives the blend of hard rock and blues grooves combined with vocalist Sam King resorting to shouting over Adam Hindle’s bass and the pounding drums of Tom Wilson. Emerging from this track is the jumpy “Squircle Interrobang” which is something that Blink 182 could come up with, but the joyful riffs of Jonny Ainsley and Jonny Hutton give all the tracks a slice of originality. The final two tracks “Thomas” and “Angry Song” have to be my favourite, with the brilliant use of stereo on “Thomas” before it explodes into a RATM styled riff and an overall Muse styled song. “Angry Song” itself isn’t angry – with a pop-punk atmosphere and a soppy love song that starts to be more spiteful along the way, making you want to punch someone as hard as an environmentalist would enjoy hitting Jeremy Clarkson.
Overall, this is an EP with song titles that seemingly come out of nowhere with damned good soloing and plenty of riffs that are quite capable of melting someone’s face off.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/FightYourFires
The drums start rolling on the first track “I'm Towing Your Girlfriend and Giving Her A Parking Ticket”. A long name for a rather short song but it gives the blend of hard rock and blues grooves combined with vocalist Sam King resorting to shouting over Adam Hindle’s bass and the pounding drums of Tom Wilson. Emerging from this track is the jumpy “Squircle Interrobang” which is something that Blink 182 could come up with, but the joyful riffs of Jonny Ainsley and Jonny Hutton give all the tracks a slice of originality. The final two tracks “Thomas” and “Angry Song” have to be my favourite, with the brilliant use of stereo on “Thomas” before it explodes into a RATM styled riff and an overall Muse styled song. “Angry Song” itself isn’t angry – with a pop-punk atmosphere and a soppy love song that starts to be more spiteful along the way, making you want to punch someone as hard as an environmentalist would enjoy hitting Jeremy Clarkson.
Overall, this is an EP with song titles that seemingly come out of nowhere with damned good soloing and plenty of riffs that are quite capable of melting someone’s face off.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/FightYourFires