Trackisting
1.
La La (Lies)
2.
Takedown
3.
The Pop Song
4.
Buy The World
Lost Trends are a wonderfully promising indie-rock band from
York, releasing their debut EP ‘Buy The World’. Combining influences from Bloc
Party, Sex Pistols and Joy Division, Lost Trends are destined to be in a league
of their own with their original and innovative sound that is seemingly shaped
by blending punk bass lines and jazzy guitar leads with viscous rhythms and a
sharp Yorkshire accent worthy of Alex Turner.
Opening
this brilliant EP is a song that sounds solidly like a track Kasabian
constructed whilst on drugs – rhythmic and repetitive guitar riffs persist
throughout together with distorted vocals and dynamic drum beats but there are
also traces of techno and an unexpected historical-sounding lecture on the
frequency of sound. The second track ‘Takedown’ is very similar and replicates
the same elements of the opening track yet ‘The Pop Song’ has clearer vocals,
presenting vocalist Stephen Green with an opportunity to demonstrate his choral
and lyrical talents. ‘Buy the World’ is much more unique as it edges away from
the funkier sounding theme of the whole EP and the guitar riffs are less
profuse which unfortunately gives the song a weaker sound and isolates it from
the more powerful tracks of the EP.
Overall
this EP is creative and unusual and the band have cleverly combined several
musical elements to ensure a wider variety of listeners and as a debut EP, this
should be very successful.
Abbie Harrop
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