Travels With Myself And Another

A scratchy voiced Cardiff man croaks in an American accent while trembly-guitars conspire to make a wall of sound, a one fingered keyboardist stabs out a little melody, basses fizz and rumble and a frenetic drummer goes nuts. Future Of The Left tie together shouty, punky indie and silly, poppy metal. It’s all a bit wonky, quirky, and broken (which are, in my view, good things) but sometimes it’s a bit wearing: “You need Satan more than he needs you!” they yell on the tiresome song of the same name and I yawn. But then they yelp “Come join, come join our hopeless cause/Come join, come join our lost cause” like freakshow Lord Kitcheners on ‘The Hope That House Built’, and I’m all: “Yeah! I will join your hopeless cause!”

Key track: ‘The Hope That House Built’