We reviewed The Deflators' last EP, Check Your Pressure, just before Christmas last year. You can read that here. A lot of what is written there, still applies here and you wouldn't want it any other way. The EP is very Noo Joisey, wonderfully so.
It is the sort of release that you wish was on Rumbar Records, same attitude, much more melodic though and maybe that's what that label misses. This is beefed up Power Pop, much rockier than the genre usually allows, but everything else is present.
The riffs are enormous, the call and response and the sheer catchiness of it all is spot on and these are songs that you can singalong to, yet shake your fist too. Plenty try this, but few succeed and so what was once everyday is now more of a rarity.
There is a real Power Trio feel to proceedings, nevermore so on the harder, even noisier, 2nd Child. A song that gets nearer to Hard Rock, more in your face, splendidly aggressive. Inside Out is a cracking listen and certainly shakes out the cobweb.
You can listen to and buy the EP here.
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