First impressions are of a Glasgow three piece band thriving on sheer volume. That's noise and not capacity for pies, by the way, and such an approach is, in itself, hardly surprising. However, the Fu King Junks are just a bit cleverer than your average band.
Let's look at the evidence. You would think that the embarrassingly Glasvegas style pretention on "2 Greens and a Teacher" would be more than enough to convict this band and sentence them to eternal audience apathy. That is until you hear the resplendent in its ordinariness strut of "Cats Should Not Be Used As Dartboards" that just has to be pastiche of all those other indie rock bands (mostly from points east of Shotts) who think they have the funk in them. There are bands that know when to point the finger of fun and it looks like the Fu King Junks are one of them.
No doubt bored with shooting fish in a barrel, the last three songs show much better focus even if subtlety isn't in this band's game plan. "We Fell Apart" ramps up the videogame aggressiveness factor to such a level that you suspect the song of being so hard that it is actually made of metal. More American, if you like, is "The Town" that echoes such bands as People's Temple and the Puffy Areolas and provides proof that the band are on the right track while "Taking This Shit For Years" rounds of this EP in a similar vein with that heavyweight stoner groove suggesting that misdeeds and misbehaviour are on the agenda.
Maybe the Fu King Junks have the stones to rattle some cages in this no mean city? I'd like to think so.