The Contravenes - Loaded Gun/Her

Hello and Happy Sunday to you. Another week has flown by like a nun on steroids and here I am bringing a review to you, written once more by my faithful compadre theexistensialist, who is boldly treading where I wanted to, but just didn't have time.

Today. they're bringing you a brilliant new act called The Contravenes, who we were both hugely taken with. In fact, I was a bit well-jell that I didn't get the time to do the review myself, but still very happy to get to feature them anyway. So, without further ado, here's an intro to a fabulous new band.

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The Contravenes – Loaded Gun

For this blog, I am bringing you another fabulous new band, The Contravenes. Unbelievably, The Contravenes are yet to properly release a single or EP etc. However, they do have a few tracks on soundcloud for your listening pleasure:

https://soundcloud.com/the-contravenes

I was totally shocked when I heard these tracks. They are not rough cut demos, the sound of a band finding their feet. They are fully-rounded songs, the sound of a band that have landed and found a musical style of their own. The Contravenes arrive fully formed. First the necessaries:

You can find them on Twitter here:

twitter.com/TheContravenes

and on Facebook here:

facebook.com/thecontravenes

The highlight is Loaded Gun. The band presumably know this is the standout track, as it is the first song they have created a music video for. Go over to YouTube, and check out the vid:

Loaded Gun is an absolute corker of a song. It has a heavy, hard rock riff, thunderous bass, and perfect rock vocals. And the fury of punk and scuzzyiness of garage give a real raw energy to the sound. There is just a slight stylised, nod and wink, knowingness to this band as well.

The Contravenes really could break through into the big time – they have already attracted some prestigious involvement for their project. Loaded Gun enlisting top producers for the recording of the track, top directors for the video, and a starring role for a top model to stand around in a rather haunted way, looking super-cool. The band are not to be out done, and look super-cool and pure rock ‘n’ roll, which is a definite achievement given that the video was filmed on 30^th and 31^st December. Us mere mortals stand around looking shiveringly cold, not super-cool, in the middle of winter.

Whilst Loaded Gun is the standout, it is well worth listening to The Contravenes other tracks on soundcloud: Her, Headspun and It’s Ideal Being Idle. These are four well-polished little gems, just waiting for release as an EP….