Wilmette describe themselves as ‘a 4-piece from the Chicago suburbs that combines pop-punk and hardcore with a fresh style that relies on pop hooks, honest lyrics and strong musicianship’, and if you had never heard this particular brand of earnest pop-punk before, you would be impressed with each of those attributes. Wilmette‘s problem is that admirable as the Anxious Body EP is, there is nothing really ‘fresh’ about the approach. From the breezy dialled back intro of opener Anxious Body through the rolled-back-treble-fade-in-intro to Paul Rutt and the thundering stop/start emo of, well, every track, there’s an uncomfortable sense that of I’ve kind of heard this before. Not that Wilmette are derivative. Quite the opposite – there is clearly a lot ...
Anxious Body
アメリカ、イリノイ出身のポップ・パンク・バンド WILMETTE の2nd EP「Anxious Body」。 01. Anxious Body 02. Carol From HR 03. Paul Rutt 04. Where I Sleep 05. Winter Stay
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