I’m sure there’s a good reason why these songs are very, very quiet, but I’ll be damned if I know why. BNR seem to be missed from the conversations of up-and-coming UK pop-punk acts but for me they’re up there with the 3 Stories High and Out of Sight-esque bands and I don’t know why they’re not spoken about more. These three new songs – (lack of) volume aside – are very good; catchy and melodic, they’re the kind of tunes you’d expect from a band influenced by NFG and P!ATD.
For me the synth-tastic ‘Glass Shoes On Concrete Feet’ is the best song, a heady mix of samples, gang vocals and a chorus so catchy it’s possibly contained within a Government lab for future tests. BNR don’t re-invent the wheel – they never have – but this is more of what we have come to expect from them; good solid, melodic songs. They’re fun live and these songs re-inforce my opinion that they’re as good as any other UK band doing a similar thing.