Light Syndicate – Last In Line

• 4th Feb 2009

Light Syndicate starts with one really really REALLY slow guitar and beat build. And before it actually gets somewhere it abruptly halts. No voice. No change of tone. It is just oh so bluntly track 2. And now we are hearing soothing strings, which in repetition become unnerving. What could become an album of sounds, a journey of the edge is also just as abruptly interrupted by some lead vocals.

The voice isn’t bad by any means, but you do suddenly discover that the music is falling back into more comfortable known territory. And that’s fine to listen to the remaining 8 tracks that follow this. A bit of twang riddled indie-rock doesn’t seem to be something that people are running away from at the moment. But you can’t help but wonder what an experience it may have been if they held onto that creepy and diverse opening and ran with it instead.