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Home Wrecker

Damn Arms
Home Wrecker

4 Track, EP (2007, Timberyard Records)
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If Joy Division were the initial nexus point for the post-punk/no-wave revivalists, then it’s both logical and fitting that New Order should be the new reference. Their original journey, made across the 80s, was a steady progression towards optimism and the freedom delivered by dancefloor rhythms, and the same sense of possibility can be heard on the title track to Damn Arms’ new EP. The relentless high-hat, treated guitar looping into infinity and joyous keyboard rush create a surge that’s uplifting, with Yama Indra and Tim Sullivan swapping vocals in the slipstream. Lyrically Damn Arms are thankfully more cryptic than Bernard Sumner’s generally placid rhymes, and while they may declare that “we speak in tongues”, ‘Home Wrecker’ is the sound of a band confidently alighting on the next stage of their identity. It speaks loud and clear. The album is now officially anticipated.

by Craig Mathieson

Tracklisting
  1. Home Wrecker
  2. Now That's A Reaction
  3. I Sink, Therefore I Swam (Jitset/Test Icicles Remix)
  4. The Cormorant (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)
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