SLOW SCIENCE represent how music should be played. Ignore what they have produced here for a minute – what I’m reviewing is the product of a bunch of people simply having a love for making and playing music. Lead vocalist Jon, destined to go traveling this month, quickly put together a four piece of touring veterans to knock together some tunes and do one quick tour before he buggered off. ‘You’re Welcome’ is the 5-track EP that represents the fruits of their labours, recorded just before a UK tour that the band undertook throughout January. I caught them a couple of times – more by coincidence than anything else – and maybe if I hadn’t I wouldn’t even have heard this.
Relatively scratchily produced, this is a record that is somewhere between a trendy gruff band and late 90s Britrock (3 Colours Red, Feeder etc). Billed on gigs as ‘ex-King Blues members’ new band’, they sound absolutely nothing like their previous
incarnations. The split male/female vocals add a warm, chirpy feeling to proceedings, and the messy, top end guitars, sometimes deliberately done, sometimes merely an accidental design, make this sound anachronistic. In a nice way. Lead track ‘Kidnap To The South’ is probably the standout track, but you get the feeling that when the band are reunited later in the year, they will have a thirst for more. In the meantime, go look them up on the usual social networking sites. This EP is a pleasant surprise.