Screaming Lights - Hello Tomorrow [Single]

Anti / Epitaph

Classic scouse indie rock to cash your giro to.

Screaming Lights probably weren't probably even sperm at the point The La's self titled album was released and they were doubtless running around in nappies when "All Change" by Cast signalled another scouse musical breakout. But despite their youth the Liverpudlian quartet - singer Jay Treadell, Alan Green (Bass), James Connor (Drums) and guitarist Max Goldberg - have got off pat the blues garage motifs which have charachterised indie rock by the Mersey since the fall of Madchester.

With this context 'Hello Tomorrow' was never likely to be a Rodgers & Hammerstein-esque dose of Prozac optimism, and predictably Treadell spends most of the two and a half minute running time saying "Fuck You" to a coked-up rent-a-party boy/girl. It has to be said that despite the fine, abrasive contempt on show, his comrades provide only your generic indie backdrop, but whilst this confirms that comparisons to the Bunnymen are true in terms of feel only, all credit to them for resisting the temptation to go synth-rock and start ripping off Ultravox. Better to come from Screaming Lights I think.