{"id":5911,"date":"2016-03-15T13:12:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-violent-soho-waco\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T23:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T23:30:01","slug":"album-review-violent-soho-waco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-violent-soho-waco\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Violent Soho – WACO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Given that most of Australia’s alternative music scene as of late has devolved into an over-saturation of bog-standard, chug-happy metalcore bands, it’s a real shame that Violent Soho<\/b> have been beavering away in the underground for the last decade-plus to little fanfare. With fourth album ‘WACO’<\/i> that’s unlikely to change, but it’s another solid clutch of grungy tracks nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Parallels can be drawn between the Brisbane quartet and a band like FIDLAR or SWMRS, except with Violent Soho<\/b>, there’s a welcome dynamism that elevates them above the competition. ‘Blanket’<\/i> and ‘Like Soda’<\/i> are welcomingly fresh takes on the traditional slacker-grunge sound, while there’s a rickety playfulness to the likes of ‘Viceroy’<\/i>, showing at least a shade of experimentation compared to obvious reference points.<\/p>\n

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These two styles represent the main binary of the album – there’s hardly ever a deviation from one or the other, meaning that repetitiveness is inevitable. But Violent Soho<\/b> combat this with a prominent hook-driven approach to songwriting. The breezy ‘No Shade’<\/i> ebbs and flows with a heady infectiousness, and ‘Evergreen’<\/i>’s punkier sensibilities are extremely welcome. It also helps that there’s much more a clarity in Luke Boerdam’s vocals, offering a poppier touch but never subtracting any grit.<\/p>\n

It’s a refreshing take on a genre that’s recently been done to death, and Violent Soho<\/b> do an excellent job on ‘WACO’<\/i> of injecting some much-needed variation on an already stale sound. It’s not touching anything near true innovation, but in terms of what it is, ‘WACO’<\/i> is top-drawer stuff.<\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

‘WACO’<\/em> by Violent Soho<\/strong> is released on March 18th on SideOneDummy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Violent Soho<\/strong> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Tumblr<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Luke Nuttall (@nuttall_luke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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