Kobadelta - Remain Distracted
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| Kobadelta - Remain Distracted |
Release Date: 26th September 2014
Since I have started this blog
there have been a few bands that have popped up from time to time and
maintained an excellent quality of music without ever achieving the acclaim or
broader success that they deserve. Newcastle quintet Kobadelta are one such
band. This new EP from the lads is another storming collection of songs and
kicks off with 'Siam', a song full of pulsing bass lines, hypnotic guitars and
menacing vocals all peppered with Keith Moon drumming and a healthy dose of
feedback. 'Repetition' is up next and this is a full on, leather clad, dark
glasses wearing, whisky swigging, cigarette smoking rock'n'roll song. We're
talking Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Primal Scream, the Stooges and My Bloody
Valentine all rolled in to a sexy, testosterone fuelled explosion of excess -
not a song you'd take home to meet your parents, that's for sure.
The second half of the EP continues
with 'They Can't Hurt Me' which is pitched somewhere between Space and Lou Reed
and again the bass line purrs as the guitars flit around like newly awakened
wasps full of disorientation and latent menace. As the EP comes to a close we
are treated to the undeniably epic 'The Heretic' which should be wearing cowboy
boots and spurrs. Possibly the single dirtiest scuzzball riff crackles through
my speakers as the sneer vocals snake through the air and you're instantly
transported to the early hours insanity of a 70s serial killer on a massive
come down in a blood spattered basement. This is darkly seductive stuff and
maybe that's why it's never quite gained the mainstream credit it deserves but, then again, music like this thrives in
the shadows and the gutters not on the luridly neon E4 music slot just before
Hollyoaks.
Footnote: Allusondrugs are
another one of those reliably great new bands so please check out both bands on
the double bill on 14th September if you can. I wish I could...
More information: https://www.facebook.com/Kobadelta/info
Live Dates:
31st August - The Boiler Shop, Newcastle-upon-Tyne w/The
Temperance Movement
5th September - The Prince Alice, Middlesbrough
14th September - Think Tank?, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
w/Allusondrugs
26th September -EP Launch @ Star & Shadow Cinema,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne w/Goy Boy McIlroy + Schultz + Wake
23rd October - Independent, Sunderland
30th October - Mink Bar, Middlesbrough