Shake off those festive cobwebs with some rollicking hard rock n roll courtesy of Small Town Saviours. This no holds-barred debut is a loud guitars to the max slice of hard rock. With no Wildhearts, those gaps are being filled with hard rockin’ mofos with tunes and hooks trying to get their barbs into our ears and Small Town Saviours have entered the ring and are coming out swinging.

Its upbeat for sure, Big riffs galore and hooks left right and centre. Its got that big choruses mixed with bombastic riffs left right and centre. They call out influences from familiar places with hooks like the Wildies, Choruses like Kiss attitude like Guns n Roses and some Ramones for good measure and to take the edge into a punkier direction. Songs about drinking (‘The Drinking Song’) Geography (‘Wild West'(Berkshire) ), with its countrified wheeze. there are a few familiar faces in Small town Saviours in Lance and Carl who prevously have graced the pages of RPM this time they come out swinging (‘London Aint Calling’) with its Pistols edge it’ll be a swinging night out whereas there is a DC edge to the riff-a-rama of ‘Translation Invariant’ as the guitars weave around the rhythm with its transatlantic groove making for a mixed record with lots to please many genre hoppers but keeping it all tightly joined up together so it’s not at all patchy and flows nicely.

If you’re looking for a high point then I’d suggest ‘Drama Queens’ with its attitude and rampaging rhythm it’ll punch you squarely on the beak if you’re not dancing like prime time Axl. To follow it up with ‘Boy Who Cried Wolf’ is impressive.

2023 is shaping up nicely so look out for this fourpiece raging through your town with an impressive debut offering.

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Author: Dom Daley