High octane indie rock. Someday soon the government is going have to start taxing that musical genre in the name of saving the environment. God knows there is enough of it about and Glasgow five man indie rock band General do their bit here to blast another hole in the ozone layer.
So and verily, “New Nature” and “Soul Asylum” zoom by leaving a trail of smoke and the sound of relentlessly average guitars behind them with both songs suffering from the common mistake of assuming that making it loud will make it better when all it actually achieves is to make a band sound like any other band who are short on ideas. Fortunately, “Final Sign” raises the bar and, while it is a more conventional rock song, vocalist Paul Burnett finally gets room to breathe. Needless to say, he takes full advantage of that opportunity. The title track sound like the sort of song that someone might write if they had listened to every album by The Stooges (once) and every album by The Strokes (Twice). Accordingly, it falls flat.
I don’t know how long this band have been playing but individuality doesn’t appear to be something they covet and only Paul Burnett’s voice stamps some class on the proceedings here. Truth be told, Glasgow is full of bands that sound like this.