You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All Turn Into Demons, Contact High Wit Da Demons

Posted on 20th Aug 09 by Paul Groome | 1

From Portsmouth and sounding like a description of an acid trip gone sour, You’re All Smiling Now But We’ll Turn Into Demons have released Contact High Wit Da Demons. For Sonic Youth fans out there, you’ll love it. Instead of over-produced, effects- ridden rubbish, YSNBWATID (sorry but I had to shorten the name…seriously) don’t appear [...]

From Portsmouth and sounding like a description of an acid trip gone sour, You’re All Smiling Now But We’ll Turn Into Demons have released Contact High Wit Da Demons. For Sonic Youth fans out there, you’ll love it. Instead of over-produced, effects- ridden rubbish, YSNBWATID (sorry but I had to shorten the name…seriously) don’t appear to be afraid of playing straight through their Marshall stack onto an eight track and pressing it for release. And why not? Good rock music is good rock music, even if the list of influences can be whittled down to a tight enough list of two or three key bands.

You're Smiling Now But We'll All Turn Into Demons

It took a few listens to get under the skin of this album. I don’t mean that I had to TRY to like it. It’s just that there’s something a bit more different about this than you’re standard brawl of guitars, bass and drums crushed together in an attempt at originality.

And creating their own innovative angle on the rock genre is still a while off, but you’ll certainly enjoy listening to them forging their way towards it. The opening song, 2009 could be an early, albeit, noisy release from a grunge band. There’s a touch of Mudhoney in there, but I can also hear a touch of some of the more off beat stoner bands aswell. Sleep came to mind during various intervals, with a sprinkling of High On Fire.

Overall, it’s a pretty strong album, and regardless of ingenuity or inventiveness, the bands energy is illustrated as serious horsepower. Their next release, I would buy out of curiosity. But I will DEFINITELY be going to see these guys live.

Drop-d Rating: 7/10

You’re All Smiling Now But We’ll Turn Into Demons

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