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The Dead Betas - "Siren" EP Review

11/4/2015

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Going back as far the 1970’s, the UK has always had a rich heritage when it comes to punk rock, with bands such as the SEX PISTOLS breaking down the conventional mainstream barriers, expressing not only themselves as musicians and their opinions on society and it’s flaws, but also lending a voice to a generation of frustrated youths who needed a sense of identity; a sense of purpose. Over time, punk itself has been accepted as mainstream, with artists such as GREENDAY achieving huge commercial success with their own brand of alternative pop-punk, somewhat defeating the object in essence, but, there are still bands that do it raw, and one of which is THE DEAD BETAS. Hailing from Torrington, Devon; the 5-piece are ready to drop their brand new EP; “Siren”…let’s answer their call…

The EP opens up with the title track and straight away you get the rough but simplistic approach that defines punk as a genre, vocally, the delivery is blunt and generally tuneless, but again, that’s standard, with the only real downside is that the track is quite sluggish, that is until a rather enjoyable climatic ending, fully utilizing the inclusion of synthesizers to give-off a slight ENTER SHIKARI vibe…it’s just all too brief. “A Night On The Town” steps it up a notch with the electro; for the most part is sounding like a PRODIGY B-side, before “15” frustratingly reminisces about wasted youth and opportunity; you only live once…have fun.

“Lotion” initially starts off with the potential to be a funky, bass driven number, but, soon descends into cheesy, cringe-worthy garbage in all honesty, with the lyrics being 100% at fault here. “Are we gonna’ fuck yeah? Are We gonna’ fuck? Coz’ if we don’t it will totally suck for you, coz’ I’m awesome…” is without a doubt a poetic masterpiece, before we finish up on “Ego Song”. It’s a slight improvement but, literally only slight, it’s got a good backing track and the rapped bit is an interesting inclusion, and, that’s about it. To summarize, they describe themselves as messy electro-punk and credit to them they've got that spot-on, because really that’s all this is. [4]


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