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might know Wigan outfit, The Klang, as the winner’s of last summer’s
Greater Manchester Youth Games’ Battle of the Bands competition.
You might know them from their spate of gigs up and down the borough.
Though if the demo the band recently dropped off at LINC HQ is anything
to go by, you’ll probably know them best as a band with some of the
tastiest tunes on the scene.
Containing three tracks of pure fun, this is a CD chock full of breezy
riffs, manic melodies and summery aesthetics.
Together, such qualities combine to create an affable sound akin to an
army of pop bands doing their damndest to infiltrate an old school punk
show.
Nimble guitars chops and slice their way through erratic bass whilst
understated vocals leap and skip about the place in an almost
spontaneous fashion.
The resulting songs place The Klang in an odd location on the musical
map.
Far too solid and without enough über-cool posturing to be lumbered with
the number of cookie-cutter, indie-lite guitar bands currently doing the
rounds, yet much more sprightly and engaging than your typical
deadly-serious rock band, the band are out there on their own little
island.
And perhaps that’s the best place for them. After all, being isolated
from the pretentious trends, fly-by-night fashions and cynical clichés
that drag many a band into a land of dull mediocrity has enabled the
quartet to get on with things and have a darn good time doing so.
At least, that’s the way it sounds here; as if this metaphorical island
we’ve just dumped The Klang onto is a place where the parties are
constant and pure fun is the order of the day.
And for that, if nothing else, the band should be applauded. Really fun
music is hard to come by these days, but The Klang deliver it in spades.
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