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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nNow I have to admit that I was looking forward to this baby hitting the virtual deck, especially after hearing and reviewing the debut, trouble was I thought I knew what to expect, how wrong could I be? As is often the case with Sophomore releases the music advances at such a rate as the band begins to Gel and more influences are brought to the fore and the players own taste changes and mutates giving you something very different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Introduction to this baby \u201cSunrise\u201d has a very 60\u2019s garage rock\/psychedelic feel and then \u201cWalking Backwards into the Future\u201d snarls its way out of the speaker, echoing Iggy and the stooges, real time garage rock\/punk hybridisation. Next up \u201cInstrument\u201d introduces a very different slant, heavier more intense with almost an Industrial underpinning, maintaining the garage sound but bringing it bang up to date. Three tracks in and I\u2019m bouncing around the room and then a pause hang on did I just have that almost psychedelic interlude? Must have been the drugs because then everything just ramps up a gear within Instrument! \u201cBigots Vs the mad professor\u201d to me draws down that early Seattle garage sound introduced by bands like The Gits before its over way too Quickly. \u201cRinse Repeat Rinse\u201d throws another curveball, hitting almost a post punk vibe before \u201cKeep moving\u201d has the perfectly sampled intro\/interlude before sending you down another wormhole with almost a trip hop background, a great point to take a breath, this is seriously good stuff, right up my street its all over the place while holding on to the garage punk DIY Ethos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe make Bombs to Feel safe\u201d has one of those riffs that build and build, the intensity being led from the lyrics, and again that curve ball kicks in leaving you smiling. There are some seriously good ideas here, at times reminiscent of Killing Joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FUck me what\u2019s this!!! Before \u201cLetter from Yootha\u201d kicks in at 100mph, and then we\u2019re into \u201cFirst they ignore you\u201d again this moves to a very different beat, swirling esoteric guitar work, but still that incessant punk riff picking at you from the background. \u201cLiberez Wayne Kramer\u201d again is one of those interludes, before \u201cJohns Gone\u201d again dropping fully into that post punk vibe, this is potentially my fave on the LP, alongside \u201cWe make bombs\u201d it\u2019s all over the place. \u201cSeek shelter\u201d another corker, starts with the white noise that all us gig goers live with, before again we have that dark Killing Joke edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a seriously good LP, Dealing with Damage are really finding their feet embracing their influences, throwing them in the mixer and coming up with something unique. \u201cWrite it down\u201d is flat out from the intro, hard edged picking at you, drawing you in. Next in \u201cMay I help you\u201d again provides the interlude to \u201cSunset\u201d before we\u2019re back into that 60s Psychedelica with \u201cSunset\u201d bringing the LP through a full cycle, looping you backwards to the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is an LP that everyone needs to listen too, more mature than the debut, packed with ideas and bringing a distinctly new sound to the place, get it on repeat, purchase it, buy the t-shirt and more to the point enjoy a fucking good LP. Can\u2019t wait to try to catch them live (Camden Rocks next year maybe?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n