From what I can gather, Leeds trio GLAZED have been kicking around the local scene for around six or seven years and shifts in personnel have meant the current trio have been plying their trade in this form since 2001 or so.
And - at least on the basis of the three songs making up this demo EP - they have a bright, brash, bouncy sound, with more than a few dues being paid to The Buzzcocks' evergreen, pepped-up New Wave sound. Indeed, "For Love Nor Money" is the kind of unpretentiously catchy guitar pop you can't really deny no matter how blase you'd like to be.
Closing tune "Talk Of The Town" also pretty much adheres to the same spunky pop formula, with a prowling bassline, simple-but-effective guitar chords, a touch of early Wedding Present and even an authentic Peter Shelley-style lead break from frontman Dan Sales.
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"Silent Triumphant" is, by comparison, a fair bit more ambitious, with considerably slower tempo, several tempo changes and some nice textural acoustic guitar building on Jam Edwards' snaky bassline.
I can't truly make any claims that it's not something we've already heard a thousand times before stylistically, while in places the playing's still pretty ragged round the edges, but then didn't punk teach those of old enough to remember that virtuosity wasn't everything? Besides, this is a demo at the end of the day and mostly what I hear within is sparky enough to be encouraged rather than derided. Keep at it, lads.
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