Wall Street Riots
To be honest, you can’t get a better title than Playground Politics at the moment, what with the budget giving our hard-earned taxes to people who can’t be bothered to get a job, or want to get themselves a brand spanking new car… so I thought I’d better give the Wall Street Riots a run for their money.
Sadly, these guys won’t be rioting in the Houses Of Parliament and drumming some sense into Alistair Darling, but they might just be able to find themselves drumming up a fan base in the UK this summer, if their EP is anything to go by.
I can’t quite put my finger on just who they sound like, there’s a mix of pop / punk / ska / rock and to be quite honest, just about every musical genre they can get their minxy little fingers on… they site their influences as everything from Poison The Well, Glassgaw and Thursday to Gallows, Refused and Biffy Clyro, with just a little bit of Lily Allen, Hilary Duff and System of a Down added to shed loads of Electro and Bassline. Love it!
Although their massive range of influences fails to make them stand out from the crown quite as much as I’d hoped, they do end up sounding like a poor man’s You Me At Six who has been listening to slightly too much Panic! At The Disco, but either way, the rest of the girls are championing these kids, and with the four singles on the EP, being of a pretty good standard, they do have the potent ional to make it somewhere.
If success is measured on the ability to rock out on your instruments, then Wall Street Riots will be scooping up award after award next year, but sadly, as we all look for something different from the latest ‘hip’ band on the scene, it’s going to be left to the reader of Kerrang! Magazine to determine the fate of these kids…
To be honest though, the second half of the EP is far better than the first, with Did You Know That Retro Pop Was An Aphrodisiac being a perfect summertime anthem and Karma Kids looking to rival Metro Station’s Shake It in the indie kid poser chart… That said, for now, they get my vote… let’s just hope their full album can deliver on more levels and show their individuality.
Rating: 3/5
Skip To: Did You Know That Retro Pop Was An Aphrodisiac - This song saves the EP.
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