The Strypes are some Irish
lads with a rhythm and blues background who blew up fast. Their first short
player was self-funded and promoted while they were still in high school. There
first album was number 2 on the charts in Ireland and there second Little Victories (Aug’15) topped the
charts. There singer is still 17. They count Dave Grohl and Noel Gallaher as big
fans and are represented by Elton John’s management company who said,"They
have a knowledge of R&B and blues at 16 years of age that I have only
amassed in my 65 years. They're just like a breath of fresh air."
They are influenced by Lead Belly, Muddy Waters, The Who and The Rolling Stones
but there third single What A Shame
was influenced by the Arctic Monkeys.
Perhaps it’s no surprise
then that Get Into It (Jun'15) the first
single off their second album, sounds
pure English indie with a side of rhythm and blues and minded more than one reviewer of an Arctic Monkeys tune. I was minded more of a more contemporary vibe, say The Academic, KONGOS or even Peace. This reviewer says the song is "...dripping with swagger". A song about the joys and travails of online dating it has a gritty
big groove and a joyous seize the day chorus. Fucking get amongst it because
The Strypes have turned in a tune here as tight as a nuns cunt and easily one of the best
indie tunes of 2015.
Shit you need to know:
Not everyone likes the
change of style with the Guardian reviewer critical of the albums lack of
contemporary relevance, fucking knob jockey, and making comparisons to vintage
Kasabian and Arctic Monkeys while noting the album was “all singalong ladrock choruses.” NME were similarly nonplussed saying The Strypes "attack album two with abandon, largely at the expense of quality".
The Strypes have been compared in the past to Dr. Feelgood but the new album more to Arctic Monkeys, Royal Blood, The Fratellis and Oasis.
The band crack wood to The Foo Fighters and grew up smashing out Kaiser Chief’s I Predict A Riot.
Julien Temple who is most famous for his docs of the Sex Pistols and The Clash is doing the same for The Strypes.
The guitarist isn’t into posers, “I was in Shoreditch the other night and it was all about beards and hipsters and I thought, ‘That shite doesn't do anything for me’.”
Other Strypes songs to rip a hole in your shit box are What A Shame, Blue Collar Jane and Hometown Girls.
Slippery seconds is a change of pace. Minneapolis indie
rockers Step Rockets and their biggest hit, the dance rock tune Kisser (2013).
“Leave
a light, leave a little loving light”
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