I reviewed the band’s last EP about 18 months ago and was quite impressed. The band, who hail from Manchester, mixed up quite a few genres, chucked in some synth and what they lacked in application they certainly made up for in ideas and effort. Fast forward a bit of time and this is their debut album ‘Rotator’. It follows on in a similar vein, heavily focuses on some Nintendo-esque sounding synth and plenty of large hooks and singalong choruses. Some of the songs (namely the title track and ‘Summer Lightning’) are energetic and quite fun. The band know their strengths and they play to them throughout the course of the record. My only complaint would be that over the whole album it does tend to get a bit samey. Had this been an extended EP I would have probably been a bit more generous in my scoring, but as it is by the time ‘Fall From Grace’ rolls around you’ve about had enough. It’s not that this album has too many bad songs, it’s just the guitar tones and synth sounds begin to sound a bit familiar. Seven songs, rather than 12, would have been about right. Still, this is a decent debut and proves the band are very much on the right lines.
