Tribes - “Baby”

 

This latest English male guitar four-piece offer up a delightful debut.  It’s genuinely heavy and I dare say grungy at times which is a refreshing mainstream rarity. They effortlessly blend dissonant riffs with melodic pop hooks. The lead single “We Were Children” is anthemic and full of  hair-messing indie poetry. The album’s middle stretch of “Sappho”, “Himalaya” and “Nightdriving” is truly inspiring and contains some of the greatest rock songs of the last few years as well as some unexpected existential spasms. They clearly borrow a lot from their influences and  a lack of imagination screams out from the last four songs; the failed epic choruses all blur into one and the excellent production sadly slips into monotony. It’s a promising and exciting debut and despite being far from perfect they prove that you can still have success with the overdrive switched “on”.

Buy this - “Nightdriving”