Shotgun Faeries - Demo

Shotgun Faeries - Demo

Tracklisting:
1. Glamour
2. Vodka Stomach
3. Wag the Wonderbitch


In spite of all the anger, aggression, drinking and general damaging of equipment that has kept The Shotgun Faeries in the limelight for all the wrong reasons over the last six months , they have just dropped one of the most surprisingly impressive demos this year.

On first listen it becomes evident that the three track offering has either been recorded at a low level, or lost its crispness during production. Fear not, just turn your stereo up, right up, this disc is meant to be played loud.

Electricity

It does not take long for the sheer electricity and energy captured in all three tracks to win over the listener. Eyes closed, you can imagine this is what The Shotguns should sound like live; right from the lead guitar wailing like a wounded wild animal over a marching drumbeat at the start of The Glamour, to the unrehearsed exchanges between front man and guitarist in Wag the Wonderbitch: ‘Bark for me Paddy’.

Singer Lomax also demonstrates his keen ability to pen a mean lyric, ‘I don’t bother black magic/ and it don’t bother me/ I got no time for the demons appearing/ in every mirror I see.’ quips the frontman in The Glamour.

Punchy bassline

Vodka Stomach speaks for itself, although it would have been nice to hear the punchy bassline more clearly, it becomes muffled under what can only be described as ‘too much fuzz.’ The intro to Wag the Wonderbitch gives a quiet nod to Oasis’ Digsy’s Dinner before morphing itself into another uplifting garage-rock anthem, searing guitars and mumbling bass a plenty.

Although it is hard to knock the first effort from The Shotgun Faeries, it is hard to ignore that the three featured tracks, are the most recognisable songs from their live show, raising the question ‘can the band write another ten or eleven songs as good as these, and will they sound diverse enough, when lumped together, to complement an album?’

Oh yeah, there is a bonus track as well, but I‘ll keep quiet about that. You can make your own mind up.

Written by Dan Jeoffroy