You Are Being Lied To

Kinesis split up in March of this year after five years together. You Are Being Lied To is a reasonable legacy to leave behind, from the glorious cacophony of album opener, ‘A Voice To Preserve’ – full of joyously raucous guitar and quasi-gospel vocals – to the closing piano balladry of ‘The Question Has Changed’. In between, we have the full-on punk roar of the title track, the Muse-ings of ‘Everything You Thought You Knew To Be’, the Pumpkins-esque ‘Principles Are A Luxury’ and the riff-heavy ‘A Prayer For Death’. They might not have been the happiest boys in the world but I’m sure there’s a legion of angsty teenagers who’ll miss them sorely.