With a sound that falls somewhere between the fuzzy raw guitars of grunge, the glam rock of Mott The Hoople and the shambolic nature of the Libertines, and a support slot with US alt rock heavyweights The Pixies, there’s been quite a lot of hype around Camden’s Tribes, and they haven’t even released a record yet! The Libertines references will undoubtedly be an albatross around the collective necks of Tribes but for me the four tracks here are good enough to lift them high above the accusations of being another lame attempt to cash in on Pete and Carl. Lead track ‘We Were Children’, a pean to lost youth, is a confident, swaggering loud/quiet affair with crashing guitars giving way for a fantastic dreamy chorus, but it’s the rocking glam metal guitars of ‘Girlfriend’ that really gets my adrenalin pumping. Elsewhere, while the acoustic demo of ‘We Were Children’ may not be as polished as the final version, it has a certain lo-fi charm and it certainly shows the band to be more than a one trick pony. Fight the temptation to listen to the naysayers who’ll dismiss them as another NME fad, these are great songs and that’s all that matters.
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We Were Chilren EP Sampler by TRIBES
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