To make any sort of impression in the overcrowded field of commercial rock you need one of the following:
a) Killer tunes that floor the listener on first hearing.
b) A lucky break e.g. a tune gets picked for a hit TV series of blockbuster movie.
c) A gimmick or memorable image.
After two previous EPs, (a) and (b) have so far eluded the two Mancunians who operate under the name Kill For Company (presumably an allusion to the book about serial killer Dennis Nilsen - Killing For Company).
Their hopes of a breakthrough therefore currently rest on the 'Guibass', a hybrid guitar/bass manufactured by Michael Banfield. This enables them to produce a more powerful sound, certainly more than your average duo (unless your name happens to be Jack White). It's a handsome looking instrument to boot.
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Mark O'Donoughue provides purposeful drumming to back Banfield but once the novelty of 'I can't believe there's only two of them' wears off, it's the songs that really matter.
Of the five songs, the title track,Bag Of Doubts, is the best but they a stuff is really just a competent mix of classic rock and 80s era indie.
"We don't do love songs", the pair announce proudly on their Soundcloud page. However laudable this rejection of sentimentality might be, it has to be replaced with something substantial and I don't hear it here.
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