FALLEN ON INQUISITIVE EARS

As I scan the musical highway that is MySpace, for fresh blood, I find my journey is littered with mediocre artists seemingly only in a band for the sake of it. There's also the case that a lot of the bands are quite simply just damned awful, so when a band comes my way that's listenable I find myself throwing myself head on into their sound. One such band who have impressed me on my search are Sharks who hail from my old hometown of Royal Leamington Spa. You'd be right in saying that they sound a heck of a lot like The Clash but with an unmistakeable vibe of the sort that seemed to surround the C86 movement of the 1980's. On first listen you're unlikely to pick that up, yet when you really listen there's an element of The Boo Radleys (when they weren't soundtracking GMTV) and it's only the singers gruff voice and the distortion on the guitars that makes you think twice before comparing them to the likes of This Poison or early Orange Juice. Not a cert for success but definitely worth your attention...

Listen to: Sharks - Fallen on Deaf Ears (myspace)