Artist: Stars of the Search Party
Single: Lost in the Dust Part II
Release: Out Now
Reviewed By: Amy McLellan
Originally released in December 2009, Stars of The Search Party offer a re-release of ‘Lost In The Dust Part II’.
The Surrey six-piece open up their 3-track EP with ‘The Culprit’, a song made up of catchy guitar riffs and sounds purposely written to be played live. With it’s chanting choruses, you can instantly see an entire crowd’s hands and heads raised to sing a long. As the track goes on it builds up into throat vocals which seem far better justified than those included in the later tracks on this release.
The second track is ‘Ignorance At It’s Best’ which proves the playing skills of the band with a 50 second instrumental introduction which doesn’t feel a second too long. However there is something displeasing about the way the mood suddenly jumps to screams in the middle of very enjoyable tuneful playing.
The final track ‘Questions’ doesn’t tackle the issue much better either. Just as the escalating guitar raises to the chorus-expect level, listeners are instead ‘treated’ to unnecessarily aggressive throat vocals. Thankfully the guitar soon returns with melody but then once again there are throat vocals which seem forced to make the music sound heavier than it really is.
Underneath the vocals, the songs and instrumentation are strong but Stars Of The Search Party need to learn that you don’t need throat vocals to rock.
(6/10)
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