Enthusiastic beginners from Cannock in Staffordshire, GUILE do the right thing by keeping the rock as simple thunder with flashes of guitar delay and a surly vocal line. Every band has to start somewhere and a shot at remaking some heaviness with fragments of Jesus and Mary Chain isn’t a terrible entrance. Current touring will, you would hope, put them in touch with their more adventurous contemporaries. Basing your music on a record collection is a noble tradition – but maybe it’s best when the references are wider or a bit more esoteric.
Jack Collins does a theatrical job of large drum noise while Neal and Jon Sawyer do brotherly guitars of the fuzzed vs sharp and tingling variety. Adam Shaw's bass does what bass should do for this stuff. It rumbles. Lyrics have the light whisp of adolescence about them: Rock and Roll is the salvation. GUILE are convinced, and reasonably convincing. Second track "You Had It All" follows a similar line, with a bit more bluster.
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But now you come to mention it, GUILE's single is not much like Darklands era JESUS AND MARY CHAIN. But their publicity material makes a lot of an apparent affinity.
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