2023-11-20 18:55:45
Since their second EP Doomswayers in 2022 it is (apart from the two standalone singles Hyde Park Coroner and Hollywood) relatively quiet around the arty postpunks of Leggs become. This is changing Fester now only to a limited extent.
The fact that the band from Greater London – frontman Ned Green, guitarist Max Oliver, bassist Jake Martin and Louis Grace – has now, to a certain extent, arrived in real life on their third EP is also reflected in their sound Fester down, as Green reports: “We’re in the transition of post-university adolescence into adulthood and needing to survive in London. I think ‘Fester’ is embroiled in that“.
So the band first had to create a new basis – and not self-distribute as a premiere, because “It has been a bit rocky for us. It’s hard to try and gain momentum when you don’t have the money, the time or resources to be able to put anything out“ – now moves the disturbing punk attitude further into quieter areas, which is often seen as taking root in slowcore and post-rock Arab Strap, Mogwai or just Deathcrash let think. A more “mature” orientation that Legss is excellent – even if the songwriting doesn’t always get to the point.
In the piano-dominated, ambient the melancholy of thoughtfulness is searched out in an ambient fog Motto and Atlantic Roadis surprisingly direct, at least lyrically The Landlord a tussle of scraping drama, fervent mania and dull despair in the introverted contemplation of Slanta half-reciting tussle of optimism and resignation, while Sister, Brother sinister and deceptively striding out of the stroll into playful movement, also cultivating a strangely distant groove in the drive through the abstract spoken word lecture, and the somnambulist babbling Daddy There’s Sand in the Sandwiches is worn out over background harmonies only to fizzle out aimlessly in a sobering manner. Always crown Leggs their development has not yet reached perfection on what feels like a transitional plate.
But what the Brits might be capable of is presented in the outstanding heart and title track, which boils up so wonderfully calm, chanting, ethereal piano and soulful backing choir dreams of Nick Cave in a noisy, rocking manner in the harmonious spatial sound of the production.
„In a way ‘Fester’ dictated the EP, it was the first thing that we came up with. It opened up a whole new avenue for us where we might play at a slower pace, play something more delicate, gentle and in ways more open. It’s quite a relieving thing to be able to express, because I think before we’ve written from an angsty perspective. We do really want to be more dynamic. Obviously, the angstiness is quite integral to the Legss sound, but with that song, especially sonically, it gives a lay of the land so nicely.” explains Grace – and thus takes away the promising perspectives Legss have thereby potentially opened themselves up in the top league.
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