Look up “savage” in the dictionary and you’ll see a picture of LTNT, beating the shit out of the very definition of the word.
Turn on MTV Rocks these days and you’ll notice something very strange. There is a definite lack of rock music. Granted, interspersed between Imagine Dragons and other wubby bands that have a little bit of guitar in, you may find a sliver of Jane’s Addiction or a thimble of Trivium but by and large, rock has become a little bit saturated in the modern mainstream eye.
Thank the Lords of Salem for LTNT then.
With a guttural, raw sound that just doesn’t let up, these boys from London have been making a few fans of late and we here at Cultured Vultures can safely say that we’ve jumped on the bandwagon; a bandwagon that quickly picked up speed once we listened to their DAO EP.
This four track release is quite simply the most satisfying thing we’ve heard in a long old while and is the first out-and-out rock album to catch our eye since Biffy Clyro first started singing about mountains. You can draw some fairly lazy comparisons between the two but it must be said that LTNT are an altogether more ferocious beast.
‘Great Entertainment’ is the one track from DAO that makes itself known the most and comes across as a vicious and unforgiving three minutes of straight up noise which eschews turn of the century rock brilliantly. Piss off fellow bus riders immediately by turning this one up to full volume through your headphones. Opening tracks ‘Body Blood’ and ‘Wear it Well’ are equally as bruising and are sure to perk up the ears of many during house parties everywhere this summer.
The latter stages of DAO show off LTNT’s more thoughtful side, which isn’t to say that they’ve lost their edge. The composed and more withdrawn ‘Film It’ is an interesting diversion from an act you may just have associated with playing it loud and hard, for the first three minutes anyway before the chaotic sound that’s gripped for you the last ten minutes comes back and in force.
As far as closing songs go, ‘Can’t Stand Anyone’ is as archetypal as they come and supremely so. Near on 9 minutes is dedicated to a measured and intricate closer which will linger long in the mind, just like LTNT themselves.
These guys are set to be bigger in 2014 than John Goodman’s McDonald’s bill so be sure to catch them before someone you hate goes and ruins them for you.
DAO is available at all of the regular internet places where you can buy music on the line. Get it from Amazon here.
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