Pales Fires - Louring Skies (Toonteen Industries)
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| Pale Fires - Louring Skies EP |
Time to get a little psyched out
now as Camden boys Pale Fires are here to present their debut EP and, get this,
it's totally free to download. That's a whole seven track EP that'll cost you
absolutely zip - let's hope it's good. Emerging out of a swamp of noise is the
opening track 'Come Closer' which is a mid-tempo piece of space rock that blurs
the line between Haight-Ashbury and Madchester with great aplomb. 'So Soon'
follows on with a sunny, optimistic guitar hook that the Verve might have let
Richard Ashcroft grumble over while 'Intermission' starts off like finding
Keith Moon and Robert Plant jamming in the back room of your local curry house
only for indecipherable yelps to start leaking out of the walls as you regret
that eighth pint of Cobra.
One theme so far has been some
really strong yet smooth bass playing which falls at exactly the right place in
the mix and this is apparent again in the Verve meets Kasabian wig-out of 'Burn
Alone'. Just for a bit of variety, along comes 'Intermission (The Egg)' which
sounds a little bit like Enya but give me some giant scatter cushions, a
kaftan, a hooka pipe and I reckon I could really, really get in to this - ya
dig? Title track 'Louring Skies' is a gentler but clearer tune than the others
that builds slowly, like a sunrise creeping over the horizon before bursting
the anticipation by flooding the sky with glorious, warm light. The EP finishes
up with 'Sky Dance', the most mainstream track on the album and one that you
could easily hear wafting down the corridors of the coolest underground venues
at any time between the late 60s and now. I can't help feeling that these guys
have got better songs in them but in terms of creating a vibe and some immense,
psyched out hooks then you really don't need to look any further than Pale
Fires.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/palefiresuk?fref=ts
Listen/Free Download: http://palefires.bandcamp.com/releases
Live Dates:
6th June - The Hunter Club, Bury Saint Edmunds