{"id":12731,"date":"2020-07-28T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12731"},"modified":"2020-07-24T22:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:13:40","slug":"stay-voiceless-lies-to-tell-your-children-gmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12731","title":{"rendered":"Stay Voiceless \u2013 \u2018Lies to Tell Your Children\u2019 (GMC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I just can\u2019t help it but whenever I get a new album to review from a band from my neck of the woods, I always think of the mid 1980s and the days when nearly every Welsh band out there wanted to be a Poundshop version of the fucking Alarm.<\/p>\n

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God those days used to be grim. Thankfully though, they were also pretty short lived and as the \u201890s dawned \u201cCool Cymru\u201d quickly became a phrase to bandy around whenever the music press got the whiff of any new band from over the Severn Bridge, and Newport (via the Legendary TJ\u2019s venue) earned comparisons to the then very much in vogue Seattle, spawning such bands as Dub War, 60ft Dolls, Flyscreen and Novocaine in the process, all of whom were snapped up by a major label looking to sign the next big thing.<\/p>\n

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Here in 2020 and with the UK music industry post lockdown now sailing rather precariously through unchartered waters, the cynic in me can almost sense a return to those bad old days of the 80s, which also made me lose all hope of finding anything exciting enough to get me writing again.<\/p>\n

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That was until I heard \u2018Lies to Tell Your Children\u2019 by Stay Voiceless.<\/p>\n

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Four years on from first being blown away by their profoundly off-kilter \u2018Those Kids Have No Idea Whatsoever Of What Went On At Stalingrad\u2019 single, this all new ten tracker demands you to sit up and listen right from the very first chord, acting like some kind of clarion call for those of us who\u2019ve simply had a fucking gut\u2019s full of the here and now, plus hidden not so deeply within the grooves of the sublime \u2018Where\u2019s Our Summer Revolution\u2019 we also now have our call to arms.<\/p>\n

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Utilising the studio skills of ex-Novocaine man Richard Jackson (who has previously worked with the likes of The Automatic, Young Legionnaire and Future Of The Left) along with Jamie Young for \u2018Lies to Tell Your Children\u2019 is quite possibly the band\u2019s masterstroke here though, as this is also one of the finest sounding Independent records I\u2019ve heard all year (the thump of Andrew Edwards\u2019 bass on album closer \u2018Something For Now\u2019 really has to be heard to be believed) and if \u2018Stalingrad\u2019 acted as my gateway drug then opener \u2018They Don’t Make Prisons Like They Used To\u2019 immediately has me back on the Voiceless gear. I really can\u2019t help thinking that this is maybe what The Guns or Exit_International might have sounded like if they had been afforded a major label budget \u2013 but let\u2019s not forget this is a self-financed release – and this track is a huge (but natural) sonic leap for Stay Voiceless, and when I say the band they most remind me of is little known (well here in the UK anyway) Swedish alt-rockers Division of Laura Lee then I really do mean that as a complement.<\/p>\n

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As the album progresses \u2018We\u2019re Not Lovers\u2019, \u2018Slaves & Silicone\u2019 and first single from the album \u2018I Am Weight\u2019 all bear the buzzsaw guitar trademarks of many a \u201890s TJ\u2019s headliner whereas \u2018Comfortable\u2019 and \u2018Little Fixes\u2019 see Stay Voiceless embracing the post-punk early \u201800s influences of their former bands while also revealing an underlying pop sheen. \u00a0\u2018Postmadonna\u2019 though, is for me, where Stay Voiceless sound at their most lethal with guitarist\/vocalist Chris Morgan, drummer Cerys Bennet and bassist Andrew Edwards powering along like Andy Cairns, Fyfe Ewing and Michael McKeegan at their chart bothering best.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Lies to Tell Your Children\u2019 channels all of the energy of Stay Voiceless live (something I would suggest you do tout suite once it is safe to do so again) and hits you straight between the eyes, it really is like a juggernaut packed full of angst and rebellion being joyridden through your council estate at three in the morning with the next generation of Rassau freedom fighters behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Lies to Tell Your Children\u2019 It\u2019s released on August 7th<\/sup> 2020 on limited edition 12\u201d white vinyl, gatefold digipak CD and download via the link below. So, never mind the bollocks going on in the here and now boys and girls, here\u2019s Stay Voiceless and they are the future, your future.<\/p>\n

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You have been warned!<\/p>\n

Buy It here –\u00a0 Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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