Album Review

Zico Chain – These Birds Will Kill Us All

• 24th Sep 2009

Sauntering metal-core, post-grunge and alt’rock with screamo spasms gives the briskly bold A-side ‘These Birds Will Us All’, the right amount of grizzle, bemusement, mystery and heart.

It highlights the growing pull of debut album, ‘Food’. This Chris Glithero led trio have created a snappy sub-three minute whirlpool of release, piercing insight and controlled anger.
That springs out from the brazenly rumbling percussion base provided by courtesy of the adept rhythm driver, Oli Middleton.

For the old-school alternative lovers, ‘Bile N’ Blood’ has a gruelling Metallica lag that is dragged through a grunge pool, of which the reflection of Alice In Chains is most noticeable. That is before Glithero succumbs to the paranoia and more gnarl is given to his vocal projection.

Some high jinks punk flirting in the form of ‘Daycase’ tops off a three track exposé of the growing range of this feeling fuelled outfit. Whose style of music is clearly dictated by their feelings and instinct for projecting them efficiently, rather than by fads or trends.