Slamming into fifth gear this week are The Hot Melts, with chart-ready single "Edith". With a air-guitarist's riff and a bassline to match, the Hot Melt's sound like post-How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb U2, and it's not just the guitarwork that's similar; the singer has a discernably Bono-ish inclination to jump off of the vocal high board. Other reference points could be Nine Black Alps' song Cosmopolitan or a non-emo Lostprophets (whose video for Rooftops appears to actually be about misunderstood middle-class kids with piercings. And then one screams and plates explode. Obviously we need to take care to not insult Urbis).
Anyway, overall, "Edith" is a fun, jumpy, track - a fist-pumping gig-favourite. I liked it, but I wouldn't plumb the depths for any serious substance. A modern pop-punk, indie-rock hybrid for fans of The Big Pink or Theoretical Girl.
Genius reccomends: Blakfish, Glamour of the Kill, Die! Die! Die!, Proceed, The Subways.
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