Info: King Bones are a 6-piece synth-punk group from Dublin who recently shared their newly released My Best Friend EP featuring 3 tracks (Right There, John Coltrane, Party Animals - Radio Edit). Produced by Ger McDonnell (U2, Kasabian, Manic Street Preachers), the EP was recorded in Beechpark, Rathcoole and The Mill, Swords.
'We've worked non-stop, day and night to get the particular sound we want… We reckon we’ve nailed it with this EP' explains Keith Hughes, lead singer and band songwriter.
My Best Friend makes your ears pop without delay as soon as opener 'Right There' fires out of the blocks, it's like you arrived bang in the middle of the song. Frontman Hughes' vocal style like a mish-mash between Talking Heads-era David Byrne or 'Money For Nothing'. The tone is set for the high-energy 'up in your grill' attitude that King Bones will slap you in the face with incessantly across all three tracks.
Any thoughts that next track 'John Coltrane' will see the band flip the switch and go off on a mini jazz opus are quashed early on. Sweeping all through the second track is an underground 80's synth and krautrock grind, the beats and keys chopping up the sound like the hammers on the inside of a grand piano. A really nice switch happens in the final third, where the track dips its toe in an understated way into early 90's dance-pop territory, the kind that had to co-exist alongside rave music as it entered into the popular charts of the era where there was often a cross-over between the two.
My Best Friend closes with single (and above video) 'Party Animals', definitely the most contemporaneous moment on the EP. Loyal to its digi-synth foundations, the six-piece also produce a track which veers more towards their guitar-based indie peers such as Columbia Mills or Pursued by Dogs. The most enjoyable aspect of this collection of tracks for me is that King Bones have revelled in the styles and genres that give them a buzz, whilst also keeping an eye on the road ahead with a view to experimenting further and not merely stopping in their comfort zone.
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