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Review: 'Spills, The'
'Collecting Dust'   

-  Album: 'Collecting Dust' -  Label: 'Alcopop! / Philophobia'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '25th September 2015'

Our Rating:
Might as well get the Pavement thing out of the way first. The Spills, hailing from Wakefield, pack this album with wonky notes and singing that strays around the edges of melody. They’ve got the loose, slacker vibe completely nailed, too. But they also have some decent tunes scattered across this 12-track offering, and they lurch and leap from quietly ponderous to big chunks of guitar.

The squalling racket of ‘Broken Guts’ is fast and furious, but still manages to incorporate a noodly guitar breakdown that’s more Queen than Queens of the Stone Age, while the slow-churn of ‘Floyd’ is oddly touching, perhaps because of its ramshackle performance than in spite of it.

It’s indie, and it rocks, but to call it indie rock has connotations that don’t really do the band justice. It’s rough around the edges, but it’s sonically varied and there’s something heartfelt about the vocals that suggests this isn’t just another band cranking it out for something to do.

The Spills Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Spills, The - Collecting Dust