It is fairly well known that here at I Don't Hear A Single, we avoid seasonal songs. The forced jollity of Christmas Songs, the I love You, Yes I Do, You Know Its True of Valentine's Day and the scary noises of Halloween are not for us.
The intent of IDHAS is for the older reviews to get attention and we use the likes of Google Analytics to make every effort to achieve that. There is something pleasurable to see something that was written a few years ago getting additional attention. So what's the point of covering things that have a week a year shelf life?
However, we make an exception with this on the basis that it is more Rocktober than Halloween and we do love The Bishop's Daredevil Stunt Club. They follow up July's excellent Please Stand By with an EP of four songs with a Horror B Movie Theme. The songs do stand up well on their own, very well actually.
TBDSC have always been at the rockier end of Power Pop and Vanishing Point is certainly that. Riffs at times hit you like Rush riffs, harmonies head towards AOR and they are not frightened by Fuzz, they define Pop Rock.
The opener, Every Night I'm Dying is an absolute stormer, it may just be one of their best songs and that bar is high. Killer Trans Am is all noise and fuzz without ever losing the hooks. Why You Ghosting Me Girl? is more classic 70s Pop Rock and again the Chorus riff just grabs you. Slower than the two previous songs but just as effective.
Nightfall On Doomsday is where the Power Pop explodes out, a cracking slab of New Wave that rounds of a splendid EP. I can think of few who mine this territory and none as well. The Chicago quartet are masters at what they do.
You can listen to and buy the album here.
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