Roll up, roll up, it's the 533rd edition of our Tracks Of The Week affair, and we have more music for you. This week's selection comes from places as geographically distant as Togo, Brazil and Leicester, but the whole world loves to rock, so why not? Last week, Massive Wagons' topped the poll, with Rich Ragany's and Joanne Shaw Taylor's appearing in what sports commentators cruelly called the "minor medal" positions. Congratulations to all of them, and here's your winner again.
Here's this week's selection. Good, aren't they? Having released some straight-ahead bangers over the last couple of years, the Leicester power trio be leaning into the sort of territory that reaped 2017’s (their admirably ambitious concept LP about a time-travelling WW2 pilot), if this song and certainly this video is anything to go by. Part mythical Iron Maiden-style saga, part Alter Bridge-esque marriage of big moody melody and deft, pummelling rhythm section, it opens the case for their next album – which promises forays into metal, prog and acoustic balladry, among other things.
Intriguing...
Built on down-tuned, densely fuzzy riffage, Geordie rockers Giant Walker revel in the introspective yet heavy vibe of the grunge greats, then mix it up with a soaring, expansive chorus and some gnarly little twists. Think Soundgarden meets Rage Against The Machine, with a prog-metal aftertaste. “The initial idea came from writing a bluesy riff in the lowest tuning I could get from my baritone guitar,”.