EP review: Torus – Sail

Torus don’t so much wear their influences on their sleeves as stitch them boldly across the rippling fabric of debut EP Sail. From the paradigm-shifting populist rock of early Foo Fighters and Queens Of The Stone Age, to the more emotionally complex sounds of Kyuss, Smashing Pumpkins and Alice In Chains, you’re taken on a gleefully fuzzed-up tour of the late-‘90s alt. landscape across four tracks that feel like they could be forgotten relics of the era.  Where many outfits would get caught up in tipping hats to their heroes, however, the Milton Keynes lads unapologetically repurpose those well-worn sounds to tell a story all their own.  Bandleader Alfie Glass seems to be tapping into the spirit of vintage Dave Grohl with his raspy, faintly-melancholic vocals a...

Foo Fighters

1.This Is a Call 2.I'll Stick Around 3.Big Me 4.Alone + Easy Target 5.Good Grief 6.Floaty 7.Weenie Beenie 8.Oh, George 9.For All the Cows 10.X-Static 11.Wattershed 12.Exhausted

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