Kassassin
Street's Centre Street Atom (Nov’14)
gives it straight up and hard. Hard as an endoscopy performed with a brick
labourer's fist and a hand held camera. The chorus takes off like a jet fighter
and vitriol drips from the vocals. That said the tune has its nuances, pauses
to take a breath between dogfights. To wit the synth intro, the lead guitar in
the chorus, the drum and synth breakdown before the bridge and the Filter-esque
lyric, “Say hey man, watch out”. Centre Street Atom is a multi-faceted
beast.
Centre Street Atom springs out of the
traps with synths and a dance vibe but doesn’t linger on it and it’s into that
wicked chorus where the guitars give it a good lashing, reminding of Vision Thing era Sisters of Mercy or the
driving intensity of Billy Duffy and The Cult. Kassassin Street have bought the
bollocks to a song that condemns right wing politics, challenges society to
embrace change and condemns bigotry
and ignorance. In word and tune Centre
Straight Atom is a fucking hard charger and undoubtedly one of the best
indie songs of 2015.
“I don’t know who the hell you think
you are,
I don’t know whatcha fighting for”
I don’t know whatcha fighting for”
Centre
Straight Atom is the second single from the psychedelic five piece who sail out
of Portsmouth, England. The shiny new song is To Be Young (March’15) and no slouch neither, but Centre Straight Atom is the belter.
Shit you need to know:
Centre Straight Atom was described by this reviewer as having vocals that create a “psychedelic melody” and being, of course,“anthemic”.
Kassassin Street worked with Dan Grech, producer and engineer of bands like Radiohead, The Vaccines and The Kooks on To Be Young.
Kassassin Street also got on the job with producer Tristan Ivemy (Frank Turner, The Holloways) for Centre Straight Atom.
The best Kassassin Street songs are To Be Young and The Royal Handkerchief Ballet.
Shit you need to know:
Centre Straight Atom was described by this reviewer as having vocals that create a “psychedelic melody” and being, of course,“anthemic”.
Kassassin Street worked with Dan Grech, producer and engineer of bands like Radiohead, The Vaccines and The Kooks on To Be Young.
Kassassin Street also got on the job with producer Tristan Ivemy (Frank Turner, The Holloways) for Centre Straight Atom.
The best Kassassin Street songs are To Be Young and The Royal Handkerchief Ballet.
The double dip is from English rockers Sisters of Mercy and Vision Thing (1990).
The title track from an album that was itself an angry attack on the right wing politics of the George Bush administration.
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