When Super Creeps tell us that “This EP wasn’t overthought. It’s just us back in the studio, making music and having fun,” you nod your head and say, “yes, you can tell, you can hear it in the music.” And you can. The three songs that make up this small but perfectly formed EP are exactly the sound of a band doing what comes naturally. In this case, that is a raw, garage-rock-infused, grungey indie sound, which may sound like a convoluted description, but give A Bug’s Life a spin and tell me I’m wrong.
The title track opens, and we are immediately immersed in a sonic landscape built on wonderfully world-weary vocals and gnashing percussion, guitars that roar and rumble and drone like jet engines and strange, warped and wandering lead lines. And anything that gives me a mental note to give my Dinosaur Jr records a spin is fine with me.
“Accomplice to Murder” continues this ballancing act of lo-fi, DIY bedroom rock and roll and grunge-pop, of the polished and the pummeling, the muscular and the melodic and things are rounded off with the strange and beguiling “Extended Adolescence” which pushes things into a place that sounds like Nirvana and Jimi Hendrix had a love child.
Yes, this is the sound of a band doing what they do best, living in the musical moment, not overthinking things and channelling their inner sonic vibes, or, as I said at the start, doing what comes naturally. And thankfully, what comes naturally is fantastic music. Strange, off-kilter, warped, challenging, but fantastic nonetheless.
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