New Noise reviews As Templar Nites!

And remember everyone, the sister band of the Icarus Line is released on Poptones Records on the 9th of October.  To order your own copy please click here.

What would you imagine an Icarus Line sister band to sound ike?  Just think about that for a second.  What would you imagine it to sound like?  Well, after careful consideration of such an excursion, it’s still deceptively hard to say.  In fact, if you asked the band, its unlikely they’d know how to answer the question themselvese!

This debut is an enticing prospect.  The list of comparisons to other contemporaries is nigh on endless.  So much so that each song could plausibly be a completely different band.  Opening with by far the strongest cut, ‘Sunken City,’ Souls She Said hit out with a ranging, flitting dance track set to a coupe of jagged guitar stabs before opening into the best song Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah have never written.  The lazy vocals, slurring through a concaved guitar/beats track to great effect.

The punk spirit of the Icarus Line is there to be shown on ‘Floor on the floor’ before going through phases that takes tasters from the likes of International Noise Conspiracy, Tom Vek, Pilot to Gunner, Jane’s Addiction and even drawing inspiration from the Strokes-initiated NY indie explosion.  There’s a lot going on.

It must be credited however for its appetite for diversity and the ambition with which it shows.  As far as sister bands go, Souls She Said certainly encompass the spirit of the Icarus Line and proves to be an interesting diversion and labour of love for the band.

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