Who would have thought that you would find the taste of the East, a psychedelic rock vision, and a nostalgic whiff of a patchouli-infused musical past in Huddersfield, of all places? A town currently only on the rock and roll map for being the birthplace of the drummer from The Beautiful South! But then why not? If Cleveland, Ohio can become an iconic music town, why not a West Yorkshire textile town?
Bone Wars may be a newly emerging band, but they are certainly not wasting any time. Three rehearsals in, and they have dropped their debut single, “Terrible Lizards,” and what a corker it is, too. Blending a late-sixties psychedelic sound with arabesque sonic auras, an accessible alt-indie vibe (for want of a better term), and heavy, power-pop grooves, this is a breath of fresh air for the UK’s rock scene.
There is something exotic and exciting going on here, something that glances back at the birth of the rock sound but also plants a flag for that signature sound in the modern age. If the word psychedelia evokes retro hippy musical machinations, this is the same trip made for the internet age. Forward-thinking, fresh and familiar and soaked in lysergic trippiness, the perfect blend of occident and orient, eastern spice and western groove.
It’s great to come across a band so totally not fixated on their own image and self-aggrandizement. A band more concerned with making great rock and roll than acting rock and roll. A band that knows its music history, who has learned from the past, and uses that knowledge to further the cause.
Why sound like what has gone before when you can create a sound for the future?
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