Shills - Sweet Inertia EP

  by Anthony Strutt

published: 29 / 5 / 2010

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Review

The title track of Cambridge-based band the Shills' new EP opens with a cool bass line, a guitar line that cuts clean through the air and a vocal from singer Tom Yates that sounds like it is shouting at the nation to wake up. It sounds as effortlessly catchy and as urgent as the Smiths did when they were still young and fresh. This country needs this band. 'Tell Me What I Really Want' again sounds like a calling. This will have fans at gigs into the moshpit in no time at all. 'Real Politik' has a catchy intro, then becomes more oddball sounding like a superior Manic Street Preachers. 'Long Still Night' has a swagger that recalls Drugstore, while Tom's vocal is reminiscent of Kele Okereke from Bloc Party. It is as urgent as the rest of this fine EP is.

Track Listing:-

1 Sweet Inertia
2 Tell Me What I Really Want
3 Realpolitik
4 Long, Still Night