The KBC have recently been called upon to support The Strokes on the Valentine's Day leg of their UK tour, and on the strength of this offering love may soon be all around for the Preston-based trio. With an element of Franz Ferdinand's hook-heavy disco rock complete with a bassline angled squarely at the dancefloor, Pride Before The Fall is an exuberant aural assault that demands foot-tapping and head-nodding from even the most reserved listener.
Even more enjoyable than that though, is when a chorus so shiny your ears have to squint bursts through the frenetic melee of jaunty guitars and the more you listen to it, the better it gets. While James Mulholland may not have the most forceful of voices, his youthful tones inject an energy into each word that is hard to resist and compliment Richard Ormerod's floor-filling bass-plucking perfectly.
The flip-side, Poisonous Emblem, is similarly infectious and almost as memorable but is let down lyrically by the opening line "Hello, were you looking to buy from me? / We've got stoves and packets of herbal tea". Don't let that put you off though, this is the ideal way to get your circulation flowing again during these cold winter nights.
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