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It's not often that such a unique and innovative sound can come out of a band who are, in the most simple of terms, manufactured. But the difference between Drive-By Argument and the Spice Girls (besides sex, style and ability to play musical instruments) is that these guys were put together entirely at random, purely for the purpose of a college project. And barely a year on from that initial formation, Drive-By Argument have outgrown the classroom like Alice in that tiny cottage in Wonderland and have set their minds instead to some kind of crazy synth-emo-dance-pop attempt at taking over the world.
This is their first move - a dark and energetic explosion of crunchy guitars battling with spacey synthesisers; an upbeat dance-worthy rhythm juxtaposed against emo warblings. It makes sense that these guys were put together - there's so many different genres and influences here that these guys' paths might never have crossed was it not for that college course.
Are they the new Cooper Temple Clause? Or the new Soulwax? Or the new Biffy Clyro? Forget that. Give it six months and we'll be asking who the new Drive-By Argument is going to be. If we were to be really pedantic, we might comment that the synths are turned up a bit too loud and the guitar is a little too quiet, which make this not quite the true reflection of Drive-By Argument's live sound that we might have hoped for. But that doesn't stop it from being an exciting and compelling listen.
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