Usually bands who are compared to Joy Division are viewed with understandable suspicion. In truth, there aren’t many bands who sound like them and that’s why they are revered almost twenty-eight years after their last recordings. Nephu Huzzband, a young quartet from Nottingham, are influenced by Joy Division as well as The Cure and Mission Of Burma. I’ve only got a single and a B-side from them but they do sound very promising indeed.
The title track is an excellent and intense reverb-heavy track which hurtles its way to the chorus at breakneck speed. Oh and the percussion is not unlike the kind a certain Stephen Morris used to perform. The more refined B-side ‘Either This Wallpaper Goes Or I Do’ reminds me a bit of Pilot To Gunner thanks to its shouted emotional vocals but it also has some strong melodies at its heart. On this evidence, Nephu Huzzband could be a young group that are well worth listening out for.
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