Bad for Lazarus are up to no good on this anarchic EP with the most experimental and ridiculously brilliant of results.
When a band made up of ex-members of The Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster, UNKLE and NIN join together to make an album, it’s going to be unique. But when they decide that they’re going to release an EP prior to the May album release as what lead singer Roch Fownes has described as “delightfully backwards to release these songs as a collection of their own, before the initial album statement had even been made”.
Fownes vocals are so striking it’s impossible not to sit up and pay attention, 25 is a raspy, gravelly jumping record with a loud for the hell of it edge that twangs with a raw edge. To call them rebellious sounds teenage, wild and uncontrollable only come close.
Track Jon Vs apocalypse is sumptuous retro and experimental which never ceases to interest and surprise, imagine a transportation to a grotty spaghetti Western saloon with atmospheric feedback.
Go! Digeo! Go! Sounds like an intro to a B movie horror, a definite highlight on the EP.
Another stand out song is Cozy- sounding something like a well documented breakdown, from doo-wopping with a jaunty guitar and moody vocals as the perfect juxtaposition until a drop into chaos and ear screeching. The album release in May can only mean good things.
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