Tim Butane might hail from Wakefield – a pretender to Leeds’s crown – but don’t let that put you off. They play fast-paced but yet surprisingly easy-listening pop-punk which isn’t (yet) produced to within an inch of its life. Its thunderous, cutting sound will doubtless remind you of many, many bands you’ve heard before but this is by no means soulless, even if it comes with a modicum of generic progressions attached. In fact, this record reminds me of a poppier version of Strung Out in places – it’s riff and singalong based but it’s certainly not the exclusive attraction of their sound.
This demo, though, is promising; I’ll say that right now. And Tim Butane can certainly take this places. These four songs all have a good basic structure and, if a little long, do reasonably well in holding your attention for the most part. The gaps between vocals are probably a bit too much in places and leave the sound a little empty for a little too long than is necessary for effect purposes and the vocals generally are weak in parts, but it’s not an ever-present problem which suggest it could be remedied quite easily. Undoubtedly though, this is not a chief concern for a demo.
Track two ‘For all the good’ is probably the best one on there – varied, almost early Yellow Card in parts, it comes through slightly above the others and I’m confident it would sound even better once it’s slightly more polished. All in all this isn’t half bad and as such the band can come out with a ‘probably worth checking out live’ badge attached squarely to their collective lapel.
Spud.
