The KBC - Six track sampler

The KBC - Six track sampler

Tracklisting:
1. K.B.C (Download sound clip: lo-fi - hi-fi)
2. Def Song
3. Day of Disillusion
4. Busy Hands (Download sound clip: lo-fi - hi-fi)
5. Red Flashing Eyes
6. The Dance Hour

After receiving some encouraging feedback from recent live performances, James Mulholland, Michael Brown and Richard Ormerod deserve credit for compressing their huge, hypnotic ‘rock meets dance’ sound into a six-track demo disc.

Neurotic

The opening tracks The KBC and Def Song would not sound out of place on a future album from The Music, with KBC’s deep, repetitive and neurotic bass-line providing an immense yet perfect contrast with what sounds like the random cha-cha whisperings of the vocal track.

Def Song will intrigue any die-hard fans of the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as the film is sampled extensively in this trippy, euphoric drum and bass effort which is almost a mind altering substance in itself.

The second half of the EP lays more emphasis on guitars than synthesisers and track four ‘BusyHands’ introduces a lo-fi vocal over the initial mysterious and eerie tone of a carefully picked guitar backing, only to be torn into by a searing guitar solo that hints at genius but for its brevity.

Funk-crazed jazz

KBC’s main problem is their tendency to become over-indulged in their own sound, never more evident than in album closer The Dance Hour, Which can be described in no simpler terms than an ‘ethereal, drum-driven, cosmic, funk-crazed jazz effort.’ You’ll see what I mean if you can get hold of a copy of the EP.

The KBC appear to be teasing their audience with glimpses of their massive potential, but can let themselves down by proving to be just too experimental. If they can take the best sounds from this debut EP, and produce the album they are capable of, then the KBC should go a long way.

Written by Dan Jeoffroy

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