The Inkhearts - Keeping Up (The Label Recordings)
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| The Inkhearts - Keeping Up |
Release Date: 7th April 2014
This is interesting on a number
of levels. Firstly, The Label Recordings is a record completely run by Edge
Hill University students who also created the video and are promoting the
single. Secondly, The Inkhearts are an impossibly young band coming out of
Skelmersdale which is, let's face it, not a hotbed of musical activity.
Finally, this is a bloody great indie song. Influenced by the likes of the
Arctic Monkeys and Two Door Cinema Club, 'Keeping Up' has a sketchy rawness in
the opening guitar refrain that is bursting with energy and nerves. And then
the song unfolds like that rush of adrenalin when you finally get the courage
to stand up to a bully or tell your abusive partner you've had enough of their
shit. The band are accomplished and this is a great choice for a debut single
but it's the honest and emotional vocals of singer-guitarist Lauren Shaw that
really set these guys apart. I get a really good feeling from this song and
that starts with the independent record label created by students right through
to the sustain on the guitar as the song ends and that bully is left wondering
what just happened. Inspiring stuff.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/TheInkhearts
Live Dates:
19th April - The Engine Rooms, Skelmersdale
27th April - Zanzibar, Liverpool
4th May - The Village Inn, Skelmersdale
24th May - The Tudor, Wigan