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I seriously think that A Wolf At Your Door Records
is fastly becoming my new favourite UK record label,
the first release I heard from the label was the
new 6 track EP from the Rugby based quintet Lavondyss,
the EP was so pleasing on my ears that it’s
still getting quite regular play in my cd player
only being prized away when I need to listen to
a different cd to review.
The latest singings to A Wolf At Your Door Records
is Deaf Havana, they are a quintet from Norfolk,
they formed back in 2006 and have never looked
back since, in their time Deaf Havana have released
a couple of self released EPs and have played
many shows across the UK and Europe including
massive support slots with Deftones, Enter Shikari,
Flood OF Red, You Me At Six and many other bands.
The band spent the majority of August doing exactly
what Lavondyss did just a few months earlier and
that’s heading to Johnny Renshaw from Devil
Sold His Soul's private recording studio in Tetbury,
Gloucestershire to record their debut EP release
for A Wolf At Your Door Records.
The EP is now finished and the finished result
is 'It's Called The Easy Life', the EP is due
for release on the 6th October and trust me it’s
totally worth the wait, seriously this EP is worth
causing mayhem just to get hold of a copy of it
early but just don’t arrested in the process
as I wont be held responsible for tipping you
off.
When I first listened to 'It's Called the Easy
Life' there was a few things that I noticed straight
away and that’s the band have an extremely
angry sound, Ryan Mellor's lead vocals are in
the same aggressive style as those of Frank Carter
from the Gallows a band who Deaf Havana have got
to be influenced by, they also sound like a better
harder hitting version of the Bristol based band
who I had high hopes for but have sadly just split
up called Young Hollywood and finally they have
added a few catchy poppy moments in the form of
there well loved dual vocals.
The EP kicks off with 'This Afternoon Was A Total
Disaster', the introduction to the song is a bit
tinny sounding, with a slight bit of distortion
then an effect that sounds like a wire has just
been pushed back in to correct the sound, this
effect is obviously used to stay true to the song
name, seconds later the song really takes off
with maximum noise and maximum impact, the dual
guitar riffs are so chunky the force could easily
cause your ears to bleed if listened to at the
right volume level, the drumming is fast and heavy
which leads me to think that sticksman Tom Ogden
gets through a fair few drum sticks whilst playing
this song on tour, the lead vocals come straight
at you in a furious screaming assault and during
the chorus things get a little more melodic vocally
whilst everything maintains the high level in
sound, everything about the song fits in perfectly
making for a really enjoyable listen.
'They Call It The Easy Life' follows on in just
as hard hitting and aggressive fashion with main
frontman Ryan Mellor screaming his lungs out within
the first couple of seconds of the song, once
again all the instruments are loud and chunky
and the chorus brings in that melodic edge again
thanks to the dual vocal attack that Deaf Havana
have come across to master.
'Keepin' It Sunny Side Up' is another song that
starts as it means to carry on with a full bag
of aggression unleashed, the dual vocals once
again work wonders for the song bringing in that
much needed catchy melody to make things stand
out a bit and this is what makes Deaf Havana so
accessible in the way that they bring the best
of both worlds.
Things take a slight chilled back turn with the
start of 'The Tune Of Id (So She Doesn't Know
It's About Her)', the song starts with a massive
instrumental introduction with really soothing
vocals coming over the instrument work, when the
song hits the one minute mark all hell in unleashed
again as every instrument beefs up with the vocals
taking a turn to their aggressive best and thick
guitar riffs coming and going throughout, the
song features many break downs with the sound
changing from heavy to light, when things are
light they are quite melodic and when they are
heavy they mean business.
My favourite track from the EP is 'Love By The
Riverside', the song starts off with a mad assault
of drumming that’s never ending, the song
also makes the best of the dual vocals and mixes
up the two sides of the bands music perfectly,
I love my music heavy, the angrier the better
in my opinion as long as there is something within
the song that stirs things up a bit and makes
it stand out and Deaf Havana have achieved just
that within the whole EP but it’s this song
that stands out more than the rest especially
when the chant along vocals come in just after
the 2 minute mark, great stuff.
I love Deaf Havana, they are a really talented
band and you can clearly see that sharing the
stage with some big name bands over the past two
years has done wonders for the band, they have
a really tight aggressive energetic sound which
is captured perfectly on their new EP. Do yourself
a favour and mark down the 6th October on your
calendar, when the day comes head out and buy
'It's Called The Easy Life', take the EP home
lock yourself in your room, put the EP on at maximum
volume and rock out on your own for the next 20
minutes but just have some headache tablets at
the ready as Deaf Havana are the kings of aggression.
I can’t wait to see what band A Wolf At
Your Door records unleash on us next.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Ryan
Jamesy
Chris
Japatti
Tom |
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1. This Afternoon Was A Total Disaster
2. They Call It The Easy Life
3. Keepin' It Sunny Side Up
4. The Tune Of ID (So She Doesn't Know It's About
Her)
5. Love By The Riverside
6. Oh Howard, You Crack Me Up |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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