Zipper

are an eight piece band from San Francisco. I’m not really sure when it was decided that the more members your band has, the better it is. In recent months we’ve had superb bands with five, six and even seven members come along. Now raise that bar to eight. At this rate, I look forward to fifty piece bands by the end of the decade.

At a most basic level, Photons are not that much different to , only without the pretension. They still have that rousing, almost orchestral sound. The end result is far more grounded though thanks to the words, and that juxtaposition results in a different, but still comfortably familiar sounding band.

I write about bands on here almost daily, and so I inevitably end up posting a lot of things that I like, but perhaps do not love. Photons are not one of those bands. You get a sense very quickly whether or not you’ll regularly return to a band. Based on the last couple of days alone, I’m going to be returning to Photons a lot.

The Glory! EP will be released on May 12 by Insound of all places.