Stream: Spring King, ‘The Summer’

Kevin Bronson on November 7th, 2016

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Spring King are a post-punk/garage-rock band out of Manchester that, with the help of the warm embrace of BBC tastemakers, has earned energetic response from U.K. audiences. The quartet — singer-drummer Tarek Musa, along with Pete Darlington, Andy Morton and James Green — released their debut “Tell Me If You Like To” this summer, following up EPs each of the past two years. With the exception of a couple of hiccups (“The Summer” is one outlier, an ode to Brian Wilson), the album is a racehorse collection of bristling guitars, galloping rhythms and boisterous sing-alongs, all typically amped up for current garage-rock appetites. They make an inaugural trip to L.A. this week, and audiences here might hear a little FIDLAR in their calamitous anthems. Or those with long memories might recall U.S. invasions last decade by the Kaiser Chiefs (with whom Spring King has toured in their homeland) or the Vaccines, although nothing on “Tell Me If You Like To” sticks as much as those bands’ early hits. Spring King’s video for “Detroit,” though, is a keeper.

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