“New Kind of Kick” is built on a blend of sass and subversiveness, melody and muscle, incendiary noise and infectious groove. If punk had never happened and this song dropped without any of the reference points we have today, this would be the song and indeed the band that music writers would be falling over themselves to write about as evidence that change is just around the corner, the old ways are about to be destroyed, and the creative barricades are about to be stormed.
Blending staccato threads of tremulous guitar and twin vocal attacks, a song-serving yet unfussy rhythmic engine room, and tons of attitude, it begins as a punchy yet spacious affair before descending into a creative cacophony of distortion and sonic drama. You wanted a new kind of sonic kick, baby, you got it!
As the opening track of the just-released EP you can’t go forward and you can’t go back it is a great introduction to the band if, like me, this is your first taste of St Divine. And as introductions to a band go, it is perfect, weaving the fresh and the familiar, the forward-thinking and the backward glancing together so brilliantly that before the track is even halfway through, you have already made a mental note to buy the EP.
