The Standards Out of the Fire EP (Schnapps House)
4/5
By: Tom Hocknell
Leading in with the twitchiest 60’s guitar line since, well, Girls Aloud, the Standards emerge from our Future Sounds column into the fray, with hooks aplenty for any girl group with half an ear between them. With its chanting demand of ‘Don’t mystify or vilify me’, this proves that all the good songs are not already written.
With tight harmonies and clocking in perfectly at 3 minutes this sounds simultaneously out of time and on the money; with a chorus made for the Queen Vic, which could make home listening tricky. Elsewhere on ‘11 Dimensions’, (coincidently the title of a new Julian Casablancas’ song - you don’t wait for a song title and two come along at once), The Standards explore their 60’s influences so explicitly it’s probably fortunate the people they’re ripping off are dead. However, ‘I’m Already There’ takes the blues route and sounds unsettlingly classic. Are they sure this one has not been written before?
Artists in this article: The Standards
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