Grand Transmitter - 'Under The Wheel' (Faith & Hope)
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By: Toby L
Having hopped on a tourbus trailing the likes of The Stands and Keane around the country, Grand Transmitter themselves are the latest guitar-hopefuls endeavouring in earnest to raise their clamour above the bustle of the umpteen Brit-packers each vying for our attention of late.
They're doing a good job of it so far, seemingly, if rather introspectively. Their aural disruption is a dramatic, Nick Cave-cum-Buckley morbidity, soaked in organs and vocalist Jake Fletcher's aloft, winding exhales. 'Slaves' is dark; 'Under The Wheel' is too, and the bearer of some really rather commanding percussion; 'Eleanor's Journey' gently thuds with breathless, jilted grace and magic; while strings-soaked closer 'You Are Not Alone' is - thankfully - not a cover of Michael 'Monkey-Boy' Jackson's drastic track of the same name from a few years back.
A startling inauguration - where Grand Transmitter's arch woe is enough to make you cry tears of unbridled joy.
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