The last time I heard Seattle's Clean Lines, before playing Want More on a recent Listening To This Week, was a few years ago. with Teenage News. That was a little Glam Rock, but not as Glam as Want More, with a driving riff. Now they are on Madrid's excellent Ghost Highway Recordings label.
Want More still sounds great, all handclaps and stomps with its extended intro. In The Way is much more up and at 'em. Scuzzy and Fuzzy, with a New York Dolls feel of Noo Yawk, a sort of perfect antidote to the Flares and Butterfly collars that preceeds it and a perfect end to a cracking fun packed EP.
So Sharp is cracking UK New Wave at its very best. It is like 1978 all over again, big riffs, big chorus and a real killer from its chiming Guitar Intro to its Guitar paint stripping solo. The pace just doesn't let go, getting your fist pumping.
The title track that opens this splendid EP is more 90s in feel, delivering speed and coming in at under 2 minutes. It isn't a million miles away from the new wave of slightly more aggressive Indie Power Pop. This seems to be the year of Guitar fun, leaning slightly 70s, long may it continue.
You can listen to and buy the EP here.
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