Munroe Effect - Call In The Futurists [Single]

Self Released

Spare a thought for the part time music hack. Unlike those divas at the NME, we don't get a 32 page bio which tells you everything from the band's respective star signs to which kind of Pot Noodles make them shit the most. No, if we're lucky we get a promo sticker with about thirty words on it, usually spouting some barely sane words of hype comparing said artist to the biggest acts their PR company think they can get away with.

However, rarely do you get confronted by a CD-R with just the words Munroe Effect: Single Review written on it in felt tip, plus a MySpace address, and I have to confess at this point I was thinking something along the lines of "You're either so good you don't have to try hard, or you flunked out of your Rock Promotion #101 class".

Predictably, the answer is a little bit of both. From Portsmouth, Munroe Effect started out in a post-hardcore vein on their 2008 EP "Death of a Tin God," but this new single ...'Call In The Futurists!' feels rawer, less calculated and is better for it. It travels far in three and a quarter minutes - quiet / loud, melody / distortion, screamo / tenderness - but whilst it falls short of the epic feel the quartet may well have been aiming for, there's an excitedly drained feeling after taking it all in. All they need now is some sticky labels, a printer and some clear plastic CD covers - and some words explaining exactly who they are!