The Gerunds – Prick up your ears
Genre: Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
The Gerunds go old-fashioned and provide beautiful melodies to very bad news on the single Prick up your ears.
Most songwriters are either ambitious or angry. Watch out for the few who have both. Those are the ones that build careers, cults, or lead their life to a reckless disaster.
They’re also the ones with the fewest casual, fair-weather fans. Once someone becomes an admirer of Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, or John Lydon, it takes a lot to dislodge the music from their lives.
The Gerunds are happily angry, and ambitiously pessimistic as can be heard on the alt-rock boogie of Prick up your ears. This sounds like people that might revel in their misery once in a while, but never at the expense of losing their good humour, or their ability to entertain. The Gerunds produce a tight, gallows humour singalong here.
Polaroit – Torn Apart II
Genre: Emo, Alternative Rock
It’s hard to know who’s telling the truth these days. You needn’t worry about such things with Polaroit.
Writing a riff to make gig-goers and football hooligans should be the objective of all rock bands. Energy can be faked, but it needs to be faked really well, otherwise, audiences will get angry and, potentially, violent.
It’s been the curse of numerous deceased record labels. In looking for the styles and sounds that were likely to make them a lot of money, record execs usually forget two things. Do these bands mean it? And, do audiences expect them to mean it? Answer these questions wrong and you have a very short career on your hands.
Polaroit wear their hearts on their sleeves on Torn Apart II stubbornly, like someone trying to stop a stampede with their bare hands. Polaroit write a song that swings like post-punk, but itches with the intensity of hardcore. This is music made for people who care about their work and don’t care who knows it.
