Loose Canon - 'What Comes Next?' / 'Take These Eyes' (Akoustik Anarkhy)
2/5
By: Kari Wynn
Bubbling up from Manchester's dark recesses comes Loose Canon: a band who takes their DIY ethos seriously. Recorded live in a tiny shack-like room in an old cotton mill, it's got all the ingredients for a screech-a-plenty punk-n-roll hoe-down, devoid of all the bullshit big studio trickery and full of the fist-pumping, by-the-people-for-the-people righteousness. Unfortunately, however fresh it sounds on paper, the actual result falls short.
'What Comes Next?' kicks off fine, with guitars so piercing you might end up with a few extra holes in previously sealed orifices, and a lovingly chaotic background. Then... oh dear... come the vocals. Sounding not unlike someone who's been repeatedly punched in the stomach and then forced to belt out a composition they're not entirely familiar with, the frontman spends a great deal of time hunting down notes and then warbling them to death. Yikes. It sets the tone for the flipside, 'Take These Eyes', which suffers a similar fate. It's a pity, considering the messy, masochistic mayhem of what's actually going on behind that voice.
Yes, it may be punk-rock. It might be underground and 'DIY'. But what's going on here is adjacent to spreading Marmite all over a rather nice slice of Victoria sponge.
Artists in this article: Loose Canon
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