THE RISE - WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND E.P.

The opening track on this 17 minute EP comes as a surprise to those who know the band as this stomping, high-energy indie-boogie live act, for it is the model of restraint while still illustrating the power and quality of the band. Called "What Goes Around, Comes Around", it features some soaring lead vocals and great harmonies above a strong, surging rhythmic undercurrent from the bass and drums, while the chiming rhythm guitar and soaring lead guitar deliver a heady cocktail of riffs and leads, as the whole song strides ahead, the almost anthemic dual lead vocal and harmonies delivering the song to perfection, so that only after a couple of plays, it not only swirls around inside your head, but is something substantial enough for you to want to hear many many times over. With a distant seventies feel to it, it's a solid, flowing slice of quality indie-rock that is simply a great song brilliantly arranged played and sung. Opening in a hail of blazing guitar riffs and storming rhythm section, the next song erupts into life, as the vocals soar above and hen head right into this cauldron of addictive chorus as the lead guitars fly overhead to magnificent extent. The slightly higher register, almost Rush-like, lead vocal dips and dives toward the chorus section as the band thunder through a bluesy, hi-octane slice of indie-rock with a decidedly boogie quality to it, the sort of thing you could easily imagine coming from a modern day indie equivalent of something like the Georgia Satellites crossed with a tad of early seventies Led Zeppelin, only with a song that's way more contemporary and addictive than that comparison may suggest, and another that's seriously strong and repeat playable. Track three again delivers a surging slice of guitar riff and energetic lead guitar-driven indie rock, with impassioned vocals and soaring choruses driving the main body of the song as the band roar along in a haze of solid rhythms and searing guitars, all simply stunning and highly engaging, fulfilling the needs of head, heart and feet all at the same time. Finally, track 4 surges into life with shuffling drums, rumbling bass and this incendiary slide electric guitar that just flies into action as the dual lead vocals soar once more on a song that leads into this huge-sounding chorus as the guitar intensity rises, the rhythms rumble even greater and the song just takes the roof off, ultimately erupting in this mid section of high-energy guitar leads and steaming rhythmic strength, befor wah-wah guitar lead and chiming rhythm guitar takes you into this ringing guitar lead that introduces a whole new set of harmony vocals as the song takes new turn then fades.
Overall, four absolutely superb, grad-A, top quality songs and some awesome playing that takes this band to the forefront of the Indie Scene as a whole, never mind just the Dundee Scene, and this must surely be the one to get them noticed.

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