Written by Tom Bedding
The Isle of Wight band take their love of late 90's/early 00's guitar music, to a new place. Filled with Coach Party charm, the second EP has quality, loveable nature and amazing guitars.
Released back last year, ‘Can’t Talk Won’t’, which has the sassiest of punctuation in its title, showed that the band were stepping it up another level from their previous EP, ‘Party Food’. The single feels epic with its distorted guitar, impressive drumming and passionate vocals by Jess Eastwood, that is backed up by some really infectious call and response backing vocals. Lyrically, the song focuses on the build up of not dealing with what hurts you, to the point that even everyday things start getting to you. Fortunately, the band have given us this great track that will make anyone want to chant our your woes to full affect.
The hook on ‘Crying Makes Me Tired’ is highly effective, with the percussion and 90’s punk rock guitars, backing it up in the best possible way. Throughout the EP, the guitars are fantastic as they reinforce the tones of each songs lyrics, especially on this track with its subject about toxic people knocking you down. Oh and that guitar solo we hear......its INCREDIBLE!
‘Really OK on My Own’ then shows how Coach Party can still do what they do best, even with a sense of restraint to the music. It glides along so well and supported by Guy Page’s drumming, which stands out phenomenally throughout this release and especially on this track.
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You can already hear fans chanting ‘Everybody Hates Me’ back, which again has the band tackling insecure subjects, that some just don’t want talk about out loud. Overall the song has a chirpy sound musically compared to its lyrics, which ensures that this song is the perfect antidote for fans to deal with their insecurities.
Following on, emo tones come out in the amazing ‘Im Sad’, the track sounding like it would fit comfortably between Wolf Alice, The 1975 and Beabadoobee. The middle eight/jam moment feels like a truly great musical release by the band, which leads us into an epic sounding closing cry of ‘Im Sad’….its truly wondrous in truth.
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‘After Party’ closes with everything that Coach Party set out to do with their highly impressive second EP on ‘Sweetheart’, it captures a truly outstanding feeling of finally wanting to let go of what gets to you. Again, these guitar tones will melt your brain and are captured incredibly well, it has to be said that the sound of this project is something to admire and revel in.
So, the band from the Isle of Wight keep going from strength to strength, offering us a place to dwell over our insecurities and work on them, in the coolest and most bad arse of ways.
Many bands go through the motions of emulating their heroes, however Coach Party are putting their own stamp on guitar music, meaning they are such a fun and bright light in U.K. music right now.
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