Lifetight – Self-Tightled EP

By RingMaster Review on November 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

Barely into their second breath as a band, emerging just a handful of months back, UK hardcore mob Lifetight have swiftly lured eager attention with their debut single and now a first EP which merges new adventure into an original hardcore heart. It is four slices of honest and uncompromising intent delivered upon an emotive roar and quite simply rather tasty.

Emerging from the ashes of melodic hardcore outfit Lock & Key, Lifetight’s have already earned eager support and radio play for recent single Energy and it is easy to hear why as the track opens up the Self-Tightled EP From an enticing guitar lure, the song launches at ears with rapacious riffs and striking rhythms with the agitated tones of vocalist Thomas Smith leading the way. Wiry hooks and a great bass grumble soon increase the song’s early grip on attention whilst lyrically a hope fuelled suggestion lines the growing snarling confrontation. With Elliott Black’s bass a constant growling pleasure in the increasingly impressing encounter, there is no escaping all the reasons it made a strong impact a few weeks back.

Those qualities are just as bold within the following Misguided. With Smith to the fore, it instantly consumes the senses before casting a hostile web of grooves and rhythmic predation; an aggression as instinctively infectious as it is imposingly cantankerous. As in the first, guitarist Danny Reeves weaves an imaginative ear gripping incitement; a collusion of riffs, hooks, and grooves which captivate as they shape the metallic punk proposal.

Just as enterprising is the swinging animosity of drummer Josh Murphy, but an attack again bred with rock ‘n’ roll virulence which in turn gives next up Big Boy House a rousing nature and energy to get the body bouncing. With a host of twists and turns in its irritable defiance, the song rumbles and grumbles with heart bred intensity and catchiness; each of the quartet sharing their inescapable craft and energy to the trespass before Dreams closes things up. The final track is an anthemic blaze of sound and discontent but once again full of encouragement as it stirs physical and emotional reaction. Old school yet as fresh as it comes, the track is a heavily pleasing end to a striking debut from Lifetight.

It is an introduction as rife with potential as it is quality and a powerful next step in the emergence of one appetite sparking band.

Self-Tightled is out now via Crooked Noise Records.