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Debut Release! The Virginmarys
Indie | Friday 8th February 2013 | Thisbe
Kicking up a stink with their debut album King of Conflict, which is currently riding the top ten in the US iTunes rock chart, are homegrown rockers The Virginmarys.
Like an attention-starved pack of angry teenagers, this entrance seems to have the recipe to get them noticed. The Macclesfield trio has gone all out to create the kind of record that makes you feel you’ve just been beaten-up in a mosh pit, and have the broken nose to prove it.
This is a slick rock n’ roll outfit, with enough fresh pepper to gain them a youthful and dedicated following. The offering, which the band describes as, a ‘hard-hitting, riff-based album’ opens up with ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’, a previous release. Front man and guitarist Ally Dickaty says ‘I had this idea of a bit of a lust for life, Iggy Pop kind of feel’, which to his credit he has managed to execute deftly.
The qualified indie-punk drum sequences set the speed of the record and instill the sense of chaotic urgency, on top of which the gravelly Cobain-esque vocals advertise cigarette torn rebellion.
‘I wear my heart on a broken arm / I’m like a rusty razor blade’ Dickaty asserts; we’ve heard this before, perhaps even from our juvenile diaries, but this is emotional napalm for a new generation, post the influences from across-the-pond from the likes of The Black Keys, and Kings of Leon.
Much like a pre-pubescent Arctic Monkeys, the lyrics read like a list of testosterone fuelled desires, fused with the old-school riffs and licks, excess and venom, these are teenage kicks – with a hard-on.
King of Conflict is available for purchase and download now.
(Thisbe Pip)
