The Subways - 'Oh Yeah' (Infectious / City Pavement)
3/5
By: Toby L
The Subways; Glastonbury 'unsigned band' winners, first unleashings on our own 'uber-cool' (really?) Transgressive Records, and general hyperbole-ridden home counties champs that have a penchant for throttling a guitar about the place and sneering a vocal-line here and there to a rampantly desired effect.
This is the major-label debut. And 'Oh Yeah' - produced by Lightning Seed and Zutons/Coral back-room boy, Ian Broudie - is a snarling piece of distorto-pop freakery with insanely grungy guitars, dirty bass and Billy Lunn's impossibly, knowingly precocious throaty blaring; the sort of thing that teenagers the nation over might well moisten their pants over. And there are a hell of a lot of worse inaugurations to the devil's ways we can ponder for rock 'n' roll first-timers; count this as a most valid of entry-points.
Artists in this article: The Subways
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