{"id":10234,"date":"2015-05-07T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-howls-no-living-ep\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:00:56","slug":"album-review-howls-no-living-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-howls-no-living-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Howls –\u00a0No Living EP"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Howls<\/b> aren’t here to fuck about. Their music contains no ribbons or tassels. No glitz or glamour. No fannying about in sight. Hailing from Brighton, the 3 piece are about pure unadulterated delicious carnage and not a lot else. If last year’s self titled EP and a string of chaotic live shows weren’t enough to prove their worth, then latest effort, ‘No Living’<\/i>, will be looking to cement the band as one of the front runners in the new breed of British punk.<\/figure>\n

Kicking things off as they mean to and will go on, ‘Rest Well’<\/i> opens proceedings breathlessly with grooving riffs, pent up angst and ripping rhythm; while \u2018No Living\u2019<\/i> follows by pummelling the listener with apocalyptic leanings and snotty pessimistic vocals and a baseline that could peel paint off the walls. This quick start makes one thing blindingly obvious. Howls<\/b> exist to be heard. They don\u2019t wish to be just another space on your iPod. They want attention and they don\u2019t want to wait around for it. Their music is the equivalent of knocking out a roof support with a sledge and sitting back to watch the result. And they know it. Uncompromising, vicious and distinguishable and that’s just in the space of 5 minutes and all. And breathe.<\/p>\n

No Living by Howls<\/a><\/p>\n

Things seamlessly continue at the same rate of destruction and effortlessly lack any regard for the state of your eardrums. \u2018Black Dust\u2019<\/i> comes off disjointed and menacing with spat words and crunching melodies, before \u2018Ides\u2019<\/i> rounds things off with pain staking emotion and a spiralling departure into disparaged self analysis and spiky cries. Then it is over as quickly as it arrived. There are no greetings, handshakes or well wishes. Just a sweaty, dirty flurry of energy and anxiety that leaves an addictively bitter taste at the back of throat and a handprint around the neck. You feel battered and bruised but also pining for more. <\/p>\n

\u2018No Living\u2019<\/i> is basically a rag tag 10-minute burst of punishing punk firmly rooted in the downtrodden depths. Rather than skirting round the edge of rawness, Howls<\/b> have targeted the jugular and hit it with everything they can muster. For only a second effort, this is a particularly volatile and confidently vicious offering from the band, and to think what they could create and achieve across the span of a full length LP is rather exciting to say the least. The future is looking gloriously dark. <\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

‘No Living’<\/em> by Howls<\/strong> is out now on A Wold At Your Door Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Howls<\/b> links:Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Jack Rogers (@JackMRog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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