Another Form of Relief

Each time I hear a new song from Stagecoach, they seem to have planted themselves even more firmly at the heart of 90’s US indie. This could easily be seen as a lazy thing to do, but I suspect we’ll see more of this as the people that grew up with The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer and, yes, Pavement form and refine their own sounds.

The funny thing is, I probably would have hated this back in those days. Break is a little more bombastic and aggressive than what I listened back then. Rivers Cuomo singing about “kicking in a face” would have been mildly absurd. It sort of works here though. Break is very much a song that has a feel of “we don’t give a shit”. It is what it is.

It’s an incredibly efficient little number too. Barely reaching three minutes, it manages to get a couple of verses in, rise, fall, show off some impressive guitar work, and still finds time for a shouted “Go!”. It’s all done before the bands of the indie “scene” these days are halfway through their “moody” instrumental introduction.

I’m doing a terrible job of selling this band, partly because there isn’t one particular hook here that works. It just all comes together into a perfect bit of powerpop.

The We Got Tazers! EP will be released on October 5 via Alcopop.

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