Fire Like This
UK riffs-and-rhythm duo get their first U.S. exposure with their latest album indebted to 90s-era heroes Fugazi, Drive Like Jehu, and Nirvana.
But, although, yes, they wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the influence of ’90s US scuzz-rockers, from Fugazi to Nirvana to Sonic Youth to Pixies, the fact remains that the peaks of [a]Blood Red Shoes[/a]’ 2008 debut album ‘Box Of Secrets’, given a quick spin in Doc Brown’s DeLorean and a transatlantic flight, could snugly park themselves into the tracklisting of any given best-of-the-era compilation playlisted by any given bedroom Cobain-trailer.
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Shaking off the excessive sheen of their previous work, Fire Like This presents a heavier, more focused version of Blood Red Shoes.
This Brighton duo have always shown a predilection towards the grungier, more distorted end of the rock spectrum and ‘Fire Like This’ is an all together heavier experience than 2007’s ‘Box Of
The fuzzy crunch of distortion and the explosive combination of the bass and snare drums has lead many astray.