Hailing from Southsea (Portsmouth), this a two piece rock combo consisting of Matt
Thompsett, vocals and guitar and Matt Winterman, drums.
They say they are influenced by Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age and Biffy Clyro, but I can hear a lot of Robert Fripp in the clever guitar work. There are also some clever syncopated rhythms going on too, which sends it into a proggy area. Matt Thompsetts eye rolling antics on the video also bring to mind a certain Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, also great purveyers of prog. So I think he has been studying a lot more historic classic bands than he is revealing at the moment.
I would like to see how this pans out live, as even the originators of two piece prog rock Tractor had to add a bass player and keyboards once they took to the stage.
This is very fuzz laden, which makes up for a lack of bass player, with many layers of guitar making up the sound, which also features as many key changes as you can shake a stick at.
I find myself looking forward to Matt almost shouting IS – THIS – THE – END toward the end of the song and I find this is a good measure of a song, when part of it resonates
enough for you to look forward to it. The rest follows naturally once you are hooked.
I would certainly recommend it to fans of prog old and new
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