Scottish Indie Punk Poets - 4/5
The oxymoronic Scottish band Void Pleasantries have constructed two EPs that could happily give Biffy Clyro a run for their money, mostly based upon how cool the name is to the music which contains true master class poetry.
John McKeller (lead vocalist) produces a soft vocal outline that surrounds the rock on their 1st self-titled EP 'Void Pleasantries'. Well, it more sounds like a movie soundtrack that doesn't make you fall asleep from severe boredom - from the clean suspenseful picking of the guitar on 'Be the Hunted' to the revengeful, hard rocking sound of 'What did you say?'. 'Tedious
Lie' and 'Emerald', however, don't exactly fit in though, with a varying tone from the other two songs, but that will not stop the catchiness from growing on you. But then -hold on - *gasp* outtakes of two songs that just undoubtedly rock, with drummer George Patterson and bassist Thomas Shaw providing the driving rhythm of 'What you want' to the pop rock sounding 'I will name it',
with John McKellar providing the clean vocals into a rock song that make it sound as original as it should, of which it does.
The second EP, 'From Afar', sounds more professional musically as well as mixing wise. They do fall for the trap of letting one instrument play before the others fall into place pop cliché like every other sell out unfortunately, but Void Pleasantries are not sell-outs in the slightest, from the chilling 'Until October' and the hard hitting punk groove of 'Collapse' being released in a frenzy of noise and music, these are people not to be messed with - they know what they're doing - and it's something that I like to call a good job of making everything fall into place and work.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/VoidPleasantriesBand
John McKeller (lead vocalist) produces a soft vocal outline that surrounds the rock on their 1st self-titled EP 'Void Pleasantries'. Well, it more sounds like a movie soundtrack that doesn't make you fall asleep from severe boredom - from the clean suspenseful picking of the guitar on 'Be the Hunted' to the revengeful, hard rocking sound of 'What did you say?'. 'Tedious
Lie' and 'Emerald', however, don't exactly fit in though, with a varying tone from the other two songs, but that will not stop the catchiness from growing on you. But then -hold on - *gasp* outtakes of two songs that just undoubtedly rock, with drummer George Patterson and bassist Thomas Shaw providing the driving rhythm of 'What you want' to the pop rock sounding 'I will name it',
with John McKellar providing the clean vocals into a rock song that make it sound as original as it should, of which it does.
The second EP, 'From Afar', sounds more professional musically as well as mixing wise. They do fall for the trap of letting one instrument play before the others fall into place pop cliché like every other sell out unfortunately, but Void Pleasantries are not sell-outs in the slightest, from the chilling 'Until October' and the hard hitting punk groove of 'Collapse' being released in a frenzy of noise and music, these are people not to be messed with - they know what they're doing - and it's something that I like to call a good job of making everything fall into place and work.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/VoidPleasantriesBand