While there are air-guitar riffs aplenty – and their rhythm section is one of the more interesting in the country at the moment – there’s just too much bluster and not enough soul.
They’re middle-class Irish boys who aren’t afraid to get their funk on '70s style. Meet Kill City Defectors, Kildare’s answer to Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The Kildare alt-indie group unleash their debut single, and even though it sounds as if it was recorded in their bedroom with an Alba hi-fi, if you look past the production values (it was paid for by their hard-earned money, after all), there’s plenty going on. With ‘Messed Up’, you get the impression that they’re not interested in following any trend. That said, they’ve a rhythmic stance similar to Republic Of Loose in ‘Toe To Toe’, which is actually no bad thing.
