The Kecks are back with double a-side ‘Tonight Might Be Different’ and ‘Modern Girls’. It follows the dark Hawley-esque croon ‘All For Me’, can this be the catalyst for 2021 the guitar scene needs?
‘Tonight Might Be Different’ is wrapped in the 4am glow they speak off and follows the despair of ‘All For Me’ neatly. Emerging from the wallow comes a purposeful strut that beckons you to follow alongside rather than inline.
*image courtesy of Denis Uhreniuk
With more purpose and heart than ever before they building melody like Pulp at their deranged best. Just when you think it’s polished, it staggers into rocks desperate clutches to become more interesting. Warped like Cabbage but, they’ve embedded wave upon wave of melodies it conjures images of Mick Ronson and Graham Coxon having a debauched but fertile studio session.
Meanwhile, ‘Modern Girls’, is a different animal altogether. Flamboyant aggression pervades every turn of this early Strokes track. Whilst us mortals have lived in continual fear, The Kecks have stared down 'Is This It' and spat it out nastier and heaped on the brutality.
This is the sound of freedom beckoning you to a dark sweat-filled room to let it all hang loose. Smashing your doc martens into the floor, crashing into your fellow man, and letting a righteous love fill the night with endless dreams of possibilities.
Not since Dogs' debut album have guitars meant this much. Cosmic mind-bending punk-fueled fuck you guitars sent from the people to the people. You bet your life this is the catalyst needed!