It’s a shame when you discover a band that really catches the trigger, lights the fuse and makes every pulse in your brain awaken, to find that they’re non-existent or indefinitely out of action for some time leaving the chances of seeing them or hearing more material at the end of a daunting waiting game. Featuring members of The Wildhearts, Atari Teenage Riot, and Amen, Sorry And The Sinatras release this post-hiatus EP that helps keep the taste buds alive and hooked for their brand of dirty heart on sleeve punk rock ‘n roll.

Like Social Distortion, The Replacements, and Stiff Little Fingers, Sorry And The Sinatras utilise a formula of shouted but melodically hinged vocals and sharp sandpaper layered guitars. They area band that will lock you in your room and give you a frenzied rush to air guitar and shout as loud as you possibly can to wake the neighbours who are now enslaved to your racket.

The topics and themes that wrap the band’s craft range from feelings of melancholy (‘Bleach & Gasoline’) to the usual hard working shenanigans of a touring band (‘The King Of Shambles Street’). A definite highlight is the band’s brilliant cover of ‘Bastards Of Young’ by the aforementioned The Replacements; this is a song of which that sounds reborn and just as relevant today as it was back in the mid-80’s when it was written by the American legends, a fitting tribute indeed.

All in all, this band have cleverly kept the tongues of their fans addicted to that feeling of attachment and yearning with this fantastic raw stomping anthem tainted record. When they will return out of the shadows is still a mystery, but when they do I’ll certainly be waiting outside the local venue to bask in their grit fuelled glow.

4/5

‘The King Of Shambles Street’ by Sorry And The Sinatras is out now on Bomber Music Ltd.

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Words by Aaron Lohan (@ooran_loohan)