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REVIEWS

Single Of The Week 26th/30th Nov 2007 Love This Band b/w Baby's Going Down - Steve Lamaqc BB6 Music

THE-MAG 14/11/2007
There are so many girly / shouty bands on the market at the moment, it gets oh-so easy to write each one off as 'yet another'. With Violet Violet, though, it isn't easy at all.

The audible hooks in 'Love This Band' include a great bit of guitar and seriously good drumming. There's also a comprehensive buttering of quality vocals to prove they can hit a melody as well as a squeek.

'Babys Going Down' has a seriously great beat, like The Cure's 'A Forest', but with an up and down bass line and really simple guitars. The vocals do the rest of the work, supplying instrumental hooks with their ooh-oohing.

I can't dismiss Violet Violet as another grrrlpunk outfit, because they're just too damn good.

Saur 8/10

DROWNED IN SOUND

Both tracks on here are perfectly worthy of a-side status, both being riotous slices of girl rock fantasticness with enough variation between ‘em to prevent Violet Violet being charged with one-song-ponydom. ‘Love This Band’ crunches and thunders its way through an aggressive, power-chording verse which makes way for a sharper edged, jerkier sound in the chorus; while ‘Baby’s Going Down’ spirals frantically through the descending guitars of the verse before switching to an ominous and overcast mood for the chorus. ‘Love This Band’ has a straight-upfront, unapologetically in-yer-face stripped-down feeling to it; ‘Baby’s Going Down’ uses interlaced “Woah-oh-oh” noises to add a disorientating layer of sound over the top of the already frantically fast riff.

Both tracks are fine samples of angry riotgrrl-type punk in the Sleater Kinney vein, with the intelligence to sneer with accuracy and the guts to be loud enough to mean it. And, along with all the venom, there’s also an ear for a tune and an inventiveness which mean that as well as being invigorating and ear searing, these tracks are bloody good fun.